============================================================================ Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2256-1 June 25, 2014 swift vulnerability ============================================================================ A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: Swift did not properly perform input validation of certain HTTP headers. Software Description: - swift: OpenStack distributed virtual object store Details: John Dickinson discovered that Swift did not properly quote the WWW-Authenticate header value. If a user were tricked into navigating to a malicious Swift URL, an attacker could conduct cross-site scripting attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: python-swift 1.13.1-0ubuntu1.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2256-1 CVE-2014-3497 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swift/1.13.1-0ubuntu1.1