USN-2207-1: OpenStack Swift vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• swift - OpenStack distributed virtual object store

Details

Samuel Merritt discovered a timing attack vulnerability in OpenStack Swift.
If Swift was configured to use the TempURL middleware, an attacker could
exploit this to guess valid secret URLs and obtain unintended access to
objects publicly shared with specific recipients.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10

• python-swift - 1.10.0-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• python-swift - 1.7.4-0ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 12.04

• python-swift - 1.4.8-0ubuntu2.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-0006