CVE-2016-0738
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0738
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-0738.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-0738
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-01-29T20:59:03.810Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T05:46:28.322189576Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303
- https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/openstack/swift
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/openstack/swift
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affectedIntroducedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:openstack:swift:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:openstack:swift:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:openstack:swift:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "source": [ "CPE_RANGE", "CPE_STRING" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "2.3.0" }, { "introduced": "2.4.0" }, { "last_affected": "2.4.0" }, { "introduced": "2.5.0" }, { "last_affected": "2.5.0" } ] }