vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2018-964: Security patch for memcached
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Mar 7, 2018 | Mar 9, 2018 | Feb 19, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 7, 2018
Added
Mar 9, 2018
Modified
Feb 19, 2025
Description
It was discovered that the memcached daemon listened on UDP port 11211 by default. An attacker could use memcached for UDP amplification denial-of-service attacks. The UDP port has been disabled by default, but can still be enabled.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-memcached
References
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