Debian DLA-1033-1 : memcached security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 101856

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a remote denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system.

The try_read_command function allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS via a request to add/set a key that makes a comparison between a signed and unsigned integer which triggered a heap-based buffer over-read.

This vulnerability existed due to an incomplete upstream fix for CVE-2016-8705.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in memcached version 1.4.13-0.2+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your memcached packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected memcached package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101856

File Name: debian_DLA-1033.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/21/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:memcached, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9951

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