N/A - USN-3120-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Memcached vulnerabilities

Informations
Name	USN-3120-1	First vendor Publication	2016-11-02
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2016-11-02
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

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Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Memcached could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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

Details:

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain malformed commands. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
memcached 1.4.25-2ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
memcached 1.4.25-2ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
memcached 1.4.14-0ubuntu9.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
memcached 1.4.13-0ubuntu2.2

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3120-1
CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705, CVE-2016-8706

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memcached/1.4.25-2ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memcached/1.4.25-2ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memcached/1.4.14-0ubuntu9.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memcached/1.4.13-0ubuntu2.2