Debian DSA-3704-1 : memcached - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94521

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Synopsis

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

Description

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered several integer overflow vulnerabilities in memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial of service (daemon crash), or potentially to execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the memcached packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.21-1.1+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94521

File Name: debian_DSA-3704.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:memcached, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705, CVE-2016-8706

DSA: 3704

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