Executive Summary



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Summary
Title Memcached vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-2080-1 First vendor Publication 2014-01-13
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-01-13
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:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 13.10 - Ubuntu 13.04 - Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Memcached.

Software Description: - memcached: A high-performance memory object caching system

Details:

Stefan Bucur discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain large body lengths. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4971)

Jeremy Sowden discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled logging certain details when the -vv option was used. An attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-0179)

It was discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled SASL authentication. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass SASL authentication completely. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2013-7239)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10:
memcached 1.4.14-0ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 13.04:
memcached 1.4.14-0ubuntu1.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
memcached 1.4.14-0ubuntu1.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
memcached 1.4.13-0ubuntu2.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2080-1
CVE-2011-4971, CVE-2013-0179, CVE-2013-7239

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memcached/1.4.14-0ubuntu4.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memcached/1.4.14-0ubuntu1.13.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memcached/1.4.14-0ubuntu1.12.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memcached/1.4.13-0ubuntu2.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2080-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
33 % CWE-287 Improper Authentication
33 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)
33 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21020
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21020
Title: DSA-2832-1 memcached - several
Description: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2832-1
CVE-2011-4971
CVE-2013-7239
CVE-2013-0179
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): memcached
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22079
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22079
Title: USN-2080-1 -- memcached vulnerabilities
Description: Several security issues were fixed in Memcached.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2080-1
CVE-2011-4971
CVE-2013-0179
CVE-2013-7239
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): memcached
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 20

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_memcached_20140401.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_memcached_20140731.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-454.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-16 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201406-13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-0926.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-0934.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-30 Name : The remote host contains a memory-based object store that is potentially affe...
File : memcached_1_4_17.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-30 Name : The remote object store has an authentication bypass vulnerability.
File : memcached_sasl_auth_bypass.nasl - Type : ACT_ATTACK
2014-01-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-14 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2080-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-02 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2832.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-25 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-280.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:02:58
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-14 13:25:16
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-13 21:19:59
  • First insertion