The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2819 advisory.

    memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended     for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Two integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the memcached binary     protocol. An attacker could create a specially crafted message that would cause the memcached server to     crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705)

    * An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in memcached's parsing of     SASL authentication messages. An attacker could create a specially crafted message that would cause the     memcached server to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8706)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

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RHEL 7 : memcached (RHSA-2016:2819)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 95291

Version 1.16