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Red Hat OpenStack 3.0 RHSA-2014:0367-01 Moderate: Swift Timing Attack

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2014
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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Updated openstack-swift packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Summary

OpenStack Object Storage (swift) provides object storage in virtual containers, which allows users to store and retrieve files (arbitrary data). The service's distributed architecture supports horizontal scaling; redundancy as failure-proofing is provided through software-based data replication. Because Object Storage supports asynchronous eventual consistency replication, it is well suited to multiple data-center deployment.
A timing attack flaw was found in the way the swift TempURL middleware responded to arbitrary TempURL requests. An attacker with knowledge of an object's name could use this flaw to obtain a secret URL to this object, which was intended to be publicly shared only with specific recipients, if the object had the TempURL key set. Note that only setups using the TempURL middleware were affected. (CVE-2014-0006)
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack Project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Samuel Merritt of SwiftStack as the original reporter.
All users of openstack-swift are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. After installing this update, the OpenStack Object Storage services will be restarted automatically.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update red hat timing attack openstack swift

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0006 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

OpenStack 3:
Source:
noarch: openstack-swift-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-account-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-container-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-doc-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-object-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-proxy-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:0367-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0367.html
Issue date: 2014-04-03

Topic

Updated openstack-swift packages that fix one security issue are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderatesecurity impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link inthe References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update red hat timing attack openstack swift

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenStack 3 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1051670 - CVE-2014-0006 Openstack Swift: TempURL timing attack

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