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Debian: DSA-2737-1 Moderate: Multiple Swift Remote Issues

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2013
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Bolster your Swift packages to rectify several security weaknesses identified in Debian's OpenStack object storage according to DSA-2737-1.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Swift, the Openstack object storage

Summary

CVE-2013-2161

Alex Gaynor from Rackspace reported a vulnerability in XML
handling within Swift account servers. Account strings were
unescaped in xml listings, and an attacker could potentially
generate unparsable or arbitrary XML responses which may be
used to leverage other vulnerabilities in the calling software.

CVE-2013-4155

Peter Portante from Red Hat reported a vulnerability in Swift.
By issuing requests with an old X-Timestamp value, an
authenticated attacker can fill an object server with superfluous
object tombstones, which may significantly slow down subsequent
requests to that object server, facilitating a Denial of Service
attack against Swift clusters.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version $squeeze_VERSION.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.8-2+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.0-6.

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Package: swift
CVE ID: CVE-2013-2161 CVE-2013-4155

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