ubuntu · CVE-2016-0738

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Priority: low Published: 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:50:49 UTC

View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0738 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (swift), 8 status rows across 8 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 3, not-affected 3, released 2.

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.

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