SUSE SLES12 Security Update : memcached (SUSE-SU-2018:0955-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109084

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for memcached fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2018-1000115: Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification, CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server could result in denial of service via network flood (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable sources). (bsc#1083903)

- Home directory shouldn't be world readable bsc#1077718

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-647=1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109084

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0955-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/17/2018

Updated: 10/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2018-1000115

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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:memcached, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:memcached-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:memcached-debugsource

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000115

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