Fedora: FEDORA-2009-4542 Critical: Memcached ASLR Bypass

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching

system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic

web applications by alleviating database load.

ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 29 2009 Paul Lindner - 1.2.8-1

- Upgrade to memcached-1.2.8

- Addresses CVE-2009-1255

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #498271 - CVE-2009-1255 memcached: ASLR bypass weakness

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498271

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update memcached' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

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