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Debian DSA-1853-1 : memcached - heap-based buffer overflow

critical Nessus Plugin ID 44718

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Ronald Volgers discovered that memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system, is vulnerable to several heap-based buffer overflows due to integer conversions when parsing certain length attributes. An attacker can use this to execute arbitrary code on the system running memcached (on etch with root privileges).

Solution

Upgrade the memcached packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.12-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.2-1+lenny1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1853

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 44718

File Name: debian_DSA-1853.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:memcached, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2415

CWE: 189

DSA: 1853