Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : memcached (MDVSA-2014:010)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72024

Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in memcached :

The process_bin_delete function in memcached.c in memcached 1.4.4 and other versions before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a request to delete a key, which does not account for the lack of a null terminator in the key and triggers a buffer over-read when printing to stderr (CVE-2013-0179).

memcached before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending an invalid request with SASL credentials, then sending another request with incorrect SASL credentials (CVE-2013-7239).

The do_item_get function in items.c in memcached 1.4.4 and other versions before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a request to delete a key, which does not account for the lack of a null terminator in the key and triggers a buffer over-read when printing to stderr, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0179 (CVE-2013-7290).

memcached before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request that triggers an unbounded key print during logging, related to an issue that was quickly grepped out of the source tree, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0179 and CVE-2013-7290 (CVE-2013-7291).

The updated packages have been upgraded to the 1.4.17 version which is unaffected by these issues.

Solution

Update the affected memcached and / or memcached-devel packages.

See Also

https://code.google.com/archive/p/memcached/wikis/ReleaseNotes1417.wiki

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72024

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2014-010.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:memcached, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:memcached-devel, cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0179, CVE-2013-7239, CVE-2013-7290, CVE-2013-7291

BID: 64559, 64978, 64988, 64989

MDVSA: 2014:010