CVE-2016-0737

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-01-20
CWE:
CWE-400
Bugzilla:
1298924: CVE-2016-0737 openstack-swift: Client to proxy DoS through Large Objects
A memory-leak issue was found in OpenStack Object Storage (swift), in the client-to-proxy connection. An OpenStack-authenticated attacker could remotely trigger this flaw to cause denial of service through excess memory consumption.

Find out more about CVE-2016-0737 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-6 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2016:0329 2016-03-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2016:0127 2016-02-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2016:0126 2016-02-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2016:0128 2016-02-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2016:0155 2016-02-09
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-7 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2016:0328 2016-03-01

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) openstack-swift Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Openstack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Romain Le Disez from OVH and Örjan Persson from Kiliaro as the original reporters.

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