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Ubuntu: USN-3601-1 (CVE-2018-1000127): Memcached vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3601-1 (CVE-2018-1000127): Memcached vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-memcached

References

  • USN-3601-1
  • DSA-4218
  • CVE-2018-1000127

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