Alpine: multiple memcached packages: security update to 1.4.38-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400870

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400870

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9951

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9951

BID: 99874

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