| Name | CVE-2016-0738 |
| Description | OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 812984 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| swift (PTS) | jessie | 2.2.0-1+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch | 2.10.2-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.19.1-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.26.0-10+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.30.0-4 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.34.0-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| swift | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| swift | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| swift | source | (unstable) | 2.5.0-3 | | | 812984 |
Notes
[jessie] - swift <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - swift <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Swift: >=2.2.1 <= 2.3.0, >= 2.4.0 <= 2.5.0