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Debian 7 Wheezy DLA-1033-1 Moderate: Memcached DoS Fix Available

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Security patch for Memcached tackles a remote Denial of Service vulnerability and a buffer over-read issue in Debian 7 Wheezy. It is advisable to apply the update.
It was discovered that there was a remote denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system
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Summary

The try_read_command function allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS via a
request to add/set a key that makes a comparison between a signed and unsigned
integer which triggered a heap-based buffer over-read.

This vulnerability existed due to an incomplete upstream fix for CVE-2016-8705.

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in memcached version
1.4.13-0.2+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your memcached packages.


Regards,

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Package: memcached
Version: 1.4.13-0.2+deb7u3
CVE ID: CVE-2017-9951
Debian Bug: #868701

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