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Fedora 38 : libmemcached-awesome (2023-fd848970c4)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 172462

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-fd848970c4 advisory.

 **Version 1.1.4** - released 2022-03-06

 * Fix [gh #107](https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached/issues/107):
 macOS: deprecated sasl API (improve detection of `libsasl2`).
 * Fix [gh #131](https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached/issues/131):
 Consider renaming tools (add `CLIENT_PREFIX` build option; default: `mem`)
 * Fix [gh #132](https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached/issues/132):
 Add build of static library (add `BUILD_SHARED_LIBS` build option; default: `ON`).
 * Fix [gh #134](https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached/issues/134):
 Update client option documentation.
 * Fix [gh #136](https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached/issues/136):
 `libmemcachedutil` is underlinked (link against libmemcached).
 * Fix [CVE-2023-27478](https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached/security/advisories/GHSA-wwmh-39wj- fx59) `get` returns random values when lower than default `OPT_POLL_TIMEOUT` is set.




Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected libmemcached-awesome package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-fd848970c4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 172462

File Name: fedora_2023-fd848970c4.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27478

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libmemcached-awesome, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27478