openstack-swift is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerabiltiy exists as OpenStack Swift before 1.9.1 in Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana allows authenticated users to cause a denial of service (“superfluous” tombstone consumption and Swift cluster slowdown) via a DELETE request with a timestamp that is older than expected.
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1197.html
www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2737
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/07/6
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2001-1
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1196932
review.openstack.org/#/c/40643/
review.openstack.org/#/c/40645/
review.openstack.org/#/c/40646/
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1197.html