CVE-2016-0737

Publication date 29 January 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
swift	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.13.1-0ubuntu1.5
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
swift	Upstream: https://review.openstack.org/gitweb?p=openstack/swift.git;h=036c2f348d24c01c7a4deba3e44889c45270b46d

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3451-1
OpenStack Swift vulnerabilities
11 October 2017