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Debian 10: DLA-3557-1 Critical: Memcached DoS Threat Advisory

debian lts
Calendar Grey September 7, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
A security flaw was identified in memcached, leading to a potential Denial of Service attack; ensure you upgrade to the most recent version to protect your infrastructure.
It was discovered that there was a potential Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in memcached, a high-performance in-memory object caching system
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Summary

A crash could have occured when handling "multi-packet" uploads in
UDP mode. Deployments of memcached that only use TCP are likely
unaffected by this issue.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version
1.5.6-1.1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your memcached packages.

For the detailed security status of memcached please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/memcached

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



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Package: memcached
Version: 1.5.6-1.1+deb10u1
CVE ID: CVE-2022-48571

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