vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3588-1 (CVE-2017-9951): Memcached vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 17, 2017
Added
Mar 6, 2018
Modified
Apr 25, 2025

Description

Daniel Shapira discovered an integer overflow issue in Memcached. A remote
attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (daemon crash).
(CVE-2017-9951)

It was discovered that Memcached listened to UDP by default. A remote
attacker could use this as part of a distributed denial of service attack.
(CVE-2018-1000115)

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-memcached
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