Fedora 20 : memcached-1.4.17-1.fc20 (2014-0926)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72249

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update to the latest upstream release. It fixes several security vulnerabilities, possible crashes when the key is printed in verbose mode and crash with specially crafted packet. (CVE-2011-4971, CVE-2013-0179, CVE-2013-7291 CVE-2013-7290)

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.

Solution

Update the affected memcached package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1052863

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1052864

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895054

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957964

http://www.nessus.org/u?e7fa9ae2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72249

File Name: fedora_2014-0926.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:memcached, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4971, CVE-2013-0179, CVE-2013-7290, CVE-2013-7291

FEDORA: 2014-0926