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Fedora 10 : memcached-1.2.8-1.fc10 (2009-4199)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38835

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Apr 29 2009 Paul Lindner <lindner at inuus.com> - 1.2.8-1

 - Upgrade to memcached-1.2.8

 - Addresses CVE-2009-1255

 - Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.6-2

 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

 - Tue Jul 29 2008 Paul Lindner <lindner at inuus.com> - 1.2.6-1

 - Upgrade to memcached-1.2.6

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

Solution

Update the affected memcached package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498271

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

http://www.nessus.org/u?d5e7c1ab

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38835

File Name: fedora_2009-4199.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:memcached, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1255

CWE: 200

FEDORA: 2009-4199