CVE-2016-8626

Publication date 28 October 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph before 0.94.9-8. The way Ceph Object Gateway handles POST object requests permits an authenticated attacker to launch a denial of service attack by sending null or specially crafted POST object requests.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ceph 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.80.11-0ubuntu1.14.04.3
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ceph

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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