Debian DLA-1913-1 : memcached security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 128558

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a stack-based buffer over-read in memcached, the in-memory object caching system.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in memcached version 1.4.21-1.1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your memcached packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected memcached package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128558

File Name: debian_DLA-1913.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/9/2019

Updated: 4/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15026

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:memcached, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15026

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