Fedora 20 : memcached-1.4.17-1.fc20 (2014-0926)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72249

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update to the latest upstream release. It fixes several security vulnerabilities, possible crashes when the key is printed in verbose mode and crash with specially crafted packet. (CVE-2011-4971, CVE-2013-0179, CVE-2013-7291 CVE-2013-7290)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72249

File Name: fedora_2014-0926.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 2/3/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:memcached

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4971, CVE-2013-0179, CVE-2013-7290, CVE-2013-7291

FEDORA: 2014-0926

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