1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2704-1

USN-2704-1: Swift vulnerabilities

Publication date

6 August 2015

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Swift.

Releases

Packages

  • swift - OpenStack distributed virtual object store

Details

Rajaneesh Singh discovered Swift does not properly enforce metadata
limits. An attacker could abuse this issue to store more metadata than
allowed by policy. (CVE-2014-7960)

Clay Gerrard discovered Swift allowed users to delete the latest version
of object regardless of object permissions when allow_version is
configured. An attacker could use this issue to delete objects.
(CVE-2015-1856)

Rajaneesh Singh discovered Swift does not properly enforce metadata
limits. An attacker could abuse this issue to store more metadata than
allowed by policy. (CVE-2014-7960)

Clay Gerrard discovered Swift allowed users to delete the latest version
of object regardless of object permissions when allow_version is
configured. An attacker could use this issue to delete objects.
(CVE-2015-1856)

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart swift to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
15.04 vivid swift –  2.2.2-0ubuntu1.3
14.04 trusty swift –  1.13.1-0ubuntu1.2
12.04 precise swift –  1.4.8-0ubuntu2.5

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