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Fedora 11 : memcached-1.2.8-1.fc11 (2009-4542)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38916

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Apr 29 2009 Paul Lindner <lindner at inuus.com> - 1.2.8-1

 - Upgrade to memcached-1.2.8

 - Addresses CVE-2009-1255

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

Solution

Update the affected memcached package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498271

http://www.nessus.org/u?caf22dcc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38916

File Name: fedora_2009-4542.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/27/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:memcached, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/8/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1255

CWE: 200

FEDORA: 2009-4542