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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : memcached (MDVSA-2013:280)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71075

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A vulnerability was found and corrected in memcached :

Memcached is vulnerable to a denial of service as it can be made to crash when it receives a specially crafted packet over the network (CVE-2011-4971).

The updated packages for Enterprise Server 5 has beed patched to resolve this flaw.

The updated packages for Business Server 1 has been upgraded to the 1.4.15 version and patched to resolve this flaw.

Solution

Update the affected memcached and / or memcached-devel packages.

See Also

https://code.google.com/archive/p/memcached/issues/192#c19

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71075

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2013-280.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 11/25/2013

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:memcached, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:memcached-devel, cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4971

BID: 59567

MDVSA: 2013:280