Detections
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Memcached < 1.4.3 No Newline Memory Consumption DoS
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5514
Synopsis
The remote host is vulnerable to a denial of service attack.Description
The remote host is running memcached, a distributed memory object caching system. The installed version of memcached is earlier than 1.4.3. Such versions are potentially affected by a denial of service vulnerability because the application continues to read in new data, reallocating its input buffer until a newline character is received which could lead to excessive memory consumption. An attacker, exploiting this flaw, could crash the affected service.Solution
Upgrade to memcached 1.4.3 or later.See Also
http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=12672
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 5514
Family: Generic
Published: 4/20/2010
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 45579
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.3
Temporal Score: 4.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:memcachedb:memcached
Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2009
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2010-1152
BID: 39577