Multiple integer overflows in memcached 1.1.12 and 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving length attributes that trigger heap-based buffer overflows.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201406-13 (memcached: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    memcached authentication could be bypassed when using SASL due to a flaw       related to SASL authentication state. Also several heap-based buffer       overflows due to integer conversions when parsing certain length       attributes were discovered.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly execute       arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of       Service condition or authenticate with invalid SASL credentials,       bypassing memcached authentication completely.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

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).

Addresses CVE-2009-2415

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.

This update of memcached fixes a signedness problem which may lead to a buffer too small to hold all data received from the network, this may allow arbitrary remote code execution. (CVE-2009-2415) Additionally an information leak was fixed (CVE-2009-1494, CVE-2009-1255 )

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in memcached :

Multiple integer overflows in memcached 1.1.12 and 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving length attributes that trigger heap-based buffer overflows (CVE-2009-2415).

This update provides a solution to this vulnerability. Additionally memcached-1.2.x has been upgraded to 1.2.8 for 2009.0/2009.1 and MES 5 that contains a number of upstream fixes, the repcached patch has been upgraded to 2.2 as well.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
76064	GLSA-201406-13 : memcached: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
44718	Debian DSA-1853-1 : memcached - heap-based buffer overflow	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
43115	Fedora 11 : memcached-1.2.8-2.fc11 (2009-12552)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
42022	openSUSE 10 Security Update : memcached (memcached-6397)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
40596	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : memcached (MDVSA-2009:202)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	critical
40546	openSUSE Security Update : memcached (memcached-1165)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
40545	openSUSE Security Update : memcached (memcached-1165)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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