vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-1000127: memcached -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 13, 2018
Added
Jun 7, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

memcached version prior to 1.4.37 contains an Integer Overflow vulnerability in items.c:item_free() that can result in data corruption and deadlocks due to items existing in hash table being reused from free list. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to the memcached service. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.4.37 and later.

Solution

debian-upgrade-memcached
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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