Debian dla-3557 : memcached - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 181125

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3557 advisory.

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3557-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Chris Lamb September 07, 2023 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : memcached Version : 1.5.6-1.1+deb10u1 CVE ID : CVE-2022-48571

It was discovered that there was a potential Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in memcached, a high-performance in-memory object caching system.

A crash could have occured when handling multi-packet uploads in UDP mode. Deployments of memcached that only use TCP are likely unaffected by this issue.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.6-1.1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your memcached packages.

For the detailed security status of memcached please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/memcached

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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

Upgrade the memcached packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 181125

File Name: debian_DLA-3557.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 1/22/2025

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48571

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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:memcached

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48571

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