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Red Hat: RHSA-2015:1895-01 Moderate: openstack-swift Data Access Leak

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2015
Dist Redhat Esm H88
OpenStack team released a significant security notice concerning swift packages to tackle potential risks in data retrieval.
Updated openstack-swift packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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 deployment in multiple data centers.
A flaw was found in the OpenStack Object storage service (swift) tempurls. An attacker in possession of a tempurl key with PUT permissions may be able to gain read access to other objects in the same project. (CVE-2015-5223)
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Richard Hawkins of Rackspace, and the OpenStack Swift core reviewers as the original reporters.
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 security update Red Hat moderate issue data access openstack-swift object storage

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5223 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for RHEL 6:
Source: openstack-swift-1.13.1-7.el6ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-swift-1.13.1-7.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-account-1.13.1-7.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-container-1.13.1-7.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-doc-1.13.1-7.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-object-1.13.1-7.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-proxy-1.13.1-7.el6ost.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for RHEL 7:
Source: openstack-swift-1.13.1-7.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-swift-1.13.1-7.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-account-1.13.1-7.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-container-1.13.1-7.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-doc-1.13.1-7.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-object-1.13.1-7.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-proxy-1.13.1-7.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 for RHEL 7:
Source: openstack-swift-2.2.0-5.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-swift-2.2.0-5.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-account-2.2.0-5.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-container-2.2.0-5.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-doc-2.2.0-5.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-object-2.2.0-5.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-swift-proxy-2.2.0-5.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7:
Source:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1895-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1895.html
Issue date: 2015-10-15

Topic

Updated openstack-swift packages that fix one security issue are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0, 6.0, and7.0.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate securityimpact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in theReferences section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat moderate issue data access openstack-swift object storage

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for RHEL 6 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for RHEL 7 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 for RHEL 7 - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1255622 - CVE-2015-5223 openstack-swift: Information leak via Swift tempurls

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