Ubuntu 15.04 Swift: USN-2704-1 Moderate: Metadata Issue and Deletion Threat

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August 6, 2015

Several security issues were fixed in Swift.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Swift.

Software Description:

- 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)

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update instructions ubuntu metadata issue swift object deletion

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  swift                           2.2.2-0ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  swift                           1.13.1-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  swift                           1.4.8-0ubuntu2.5

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