Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title memcached: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201701-12 First vendor Publication 2017-01-02
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-01-02
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in memcached which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system

Description

Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in memcached.
Please review the CVE identifiers and Cisco TALOS reports referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could abuse memcached's binary protocol leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All memcached users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/memcached-1.4.33"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-8704 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8704
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-8705 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8705
[ 3 ] CVE-2016-8706 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8706
[ 4 ] TALOS-2016-0219
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0219/
[ 5 ] TALOS-2016-0220
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0220/
[ 6 ] TALOS-2016-0221
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0221/

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-12

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201701-12.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 20

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-09-17 Memcached SASL auth opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 51064 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2019-09-17 Memcached SASL auth opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 51063 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2018-04-12 Memcached replaceq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 45940 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2018-04-12 Memcached replace opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 45939 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2018-04-12 Memcached addq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 45938 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2018-04-12 Memcached add opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 45937 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2018-04-12 Memcached setq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 45936 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2018-04-12 Memcached set opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 45935 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached SASL auth opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40483 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached SASL auth opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40482 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached replaceq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40481 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached replace opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40480 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached addq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40479 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached add opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40478 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached setq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40477 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached set opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40476 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached prependq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40475 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached prependq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40474 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached appendq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40473 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached appendq opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40472 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached prepend opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40471 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached prepend opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40470 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached append opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40469 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-10-18 Memcached append opcode request heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40468 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-06-07 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4218.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-21 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1033.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2016-1086.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-12.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-15 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20161123_memcached_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-0c4e822340.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-29 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-2820.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-28 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-2819.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-23 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2819.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-23 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20161123_memcached_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-23 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2820.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-23 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2820.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-23 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2819.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-18 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1314.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-18 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1313.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-66c70cadb4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-4df986a71f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-11 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2016-761.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-07 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-701.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3704.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-03 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3120-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-02 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_f4bf713f6ac74b76898047bf90c5419f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-07-01 09:25:35
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-04 13:23:10
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-02 17:24:26
  • First insertion