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Debian 8 DSA-3704-1 Critical: Memcached Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2016
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4642-1 highlights a buffer overflow in Apache HTTPd that can result in service downtime.
Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered several integer overflow vulnerabilities in memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system
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Summary

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

We recommend that you upgrade your memcached packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: memcached
CVE ID: CVE-2016-8704 CVE-2016-8705 CVE-2016-8706

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