CVE-2018-1000127

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4218

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3601-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00031.html

https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1437

https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/271

https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/a8c4a82787b8b6c256d61bd5c42fb7f92d1bae00

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2290

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-03-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High