DSA-3583-1 swift-plugin-s3 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3583-1 swift-plugin-s3 -- security update

Date Reported:

18 May 2016

Affected Packages:

swift-plugin-s3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 822688.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8466.

More information:

It was discovered that the swift3 (S3 compatibility) middleware plugin for Swift performed insufficient validation of date headers which might result in replay attacks.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7-5+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your swift-plugin-s3 packages.