Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server that can result in denial of service via network flood (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due to the disabling of the UDP protocol by default.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1627 advisory.

  - openstack-tripleo-heat-templates: Ceph client keyring is world-readable when deployed by director     (CVE-2017-12155)

  - memcached: UDP server support allows spoofed traffic amplification DoS (CVE-2018-1000115)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1593 advisory.

  - openstack-tripleo-heat-templates: Ceph client keyring is world-readable when deployed by director     (CVE-2017-12155)

  - memcached: UDP server support allows spoofed traffic amplification DoS (CVE-2018-1000115)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2331 advisory.

  - memcached: UDP server support allows spoofed traffic amplification DoS (CVE-2018-1000115)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2857 advisory.

  - memcached: UDP server support allows spoofed traffic amplification DoS (CVE-2018-1000115)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the memcached packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The try_read_command function in memcached.c in     memcached before 1.4.39 allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a     request to add/set a key, which makes a comparison     between signed and unsigned int and triggers a     heap-based buffer over-read. NOTE: this vulnerability     exists because of an incomplete fix for     CVE-2016-8705.(CVE-2017-9951)

  - Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient     Control of Network Message Volume (Network     Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP     support of the memcached server that can result in     denial of service via network flood (traffic     amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable     sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via     network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This     vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due     to the disabling of the UDP protocol by     default.(CVE-2018-1000115)

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

According to the versions of the memcached package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient     Control of Network Message Volume (Network     Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP     support of the memcached server that can result in     denial of service via network flood (traffic     amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable     sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via     network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This     vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due     to the disabling of the UDP protocol by     default.(CVE-2018-1000115)

  - The try_read_command function in memcached.c in     memcached before 1.4.39 allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a     request to add/set a key, which makes a comparison     between signed and unsigned int and triggers a     heap-based buffer over-read. NOTE: this vulnerability     exists because of an incomplete fix for     CVE-2016-8705.(CVE-2017-9951)

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

According to the versions of the memcached package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient     Control of Network Message Volume (Network     Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP     support of the memcached server that can result in     denial of service via network flood (traffic     amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable     sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via     network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This     vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due     to the disabling of the UDP protocol by     default.(CVE-2018-1000115)

  - The try_read_command function in memcached.c in     memcached before 1.4.39 allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a     request to add/set a key, which makes a comparison     between signed and unsigned int and triggers a     heap-based buffer over-read. NOTE: this vulnerability     exists because of an incomplete fix for     CVE-2016-8705.(CVE-2017-9951)

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

According to the versions of the memcached package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The try_read_command function in memcached.c in     memcached before 1.4.39 allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a     request to add/set a key, which makes a comparison     between signed and unsigned int and triggers a     heap-based buffer over-read. NOTE: this vulnerability     exists because of an incomplete fix for     CVE-2016-8705.(CVE-2017-9951)

  - Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient     Control of Network Message Volume (Network     Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP     support of the memcached server that can result in     denial of service via network flood (traffic     amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable     sources). This attack appear to be exploitable via     network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This     vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.6 due     to the disabling of the UDP protocol by     default.(CVE-2018-1000115)

  - 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.(CVE-2018-1000127)

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

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2017-9951     Daniel Shapira reported a heap-based buffer over-read in     memcached (resulting from an incomplete fix for     CVE-2016-8705 ) triggered by specially crafted requests     to add/set a key and allowing a remote attacker to cause     a denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-1000115     It was reported that memcached listens to UDP by     default. A remote attacker can take advantage of it to     use the memcached service as a DDoS amplifier.

  Default installations of memcached in Debian are not affected by   this issue as the installation defaults to listen only on localhost.
  This update disables the UDP port by default. Listening on the UDP   can be re-enabled in the /etc/memcached.conf (cf.
  /usr/share/doc/memcached/NEWS.Debian.gz).

  - CVE-2018-1000127     An integer overflow was reported in memcached, resulting     in resource leaks, data corruption, deadlocks or     crashes.

It was discovered that the memcached daemon listened on UDP port 11211 by default. An attacker could use memcached for UDP amplification denial-of-service attacks. The UDP port has been disabled by default, but can still be enabled.

It was discovered that the memcached connections using UDP transport protocol can be abused for efficient traffic amplification distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. A remote attacker could send a malicious UDP request using a spoofed source IP address of a target system to memcached, causing it to send a significantly larger response to the target. (CVE-2018-1000115)

This update for memcached fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2018-1000115: Insufficient Control of Network     Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406)     vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server     could result in denial of service via network flood     (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by     reliable sources). (bsc#1083903)

  - Home directory shouldn't be world readable bsc#1077718

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

This update for memcached fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2018-1000115: Insufficient Control of Network     Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406)     vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server     could result in denial of service via network flood     (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by     reliable sources). (bsc#1083903)

  - Home directory shouldn't be world readable bsc#1077718

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

Daniel Shapira discovered an integer overflow issue in Memcached. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (daemon crash). (CVE-2017-9951)

It was discovered that Memcached listened to UDP by default. A remote attacker could use this as part of a distributed denial of service attack. (CVE-2018-1000115).

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
194093	RHEL 7 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform director (RHSA-2018:1627)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
194086	RHEL 7 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform director (RHSA-2018:1593)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
194080	RHEL 7 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 director (RHSA-2018:2331)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
194055	RHEL 7 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 director (RHSA-2018:2857)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
141706	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : memcached (EulerOS-SA-2020-2208)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
138003	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : memcached (EulerOS-SA-2020-1784)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
132166	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : memcached (EulerOS-SA-2019-2631)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
131883	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : memcached (EulerOS-SA-2019-2391)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
130675	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : memcached (EulerOS-SA-2019-2213)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
110386	Debian DSA-4218-1 : memcached - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
109132	Amazon Linux 2 : memcached (ALAS-2018-964)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
109100	openSUSE Security Update : memcached (openSUSE-2018-373)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
109084	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : memcached (SUSE-SU-2018:0955-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
107235	Amazon Linux AMI : memcached (ALAS-2018-964)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
107148	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Memcached vulnerabilities (USN-3588-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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