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Fedora 24 Memcached Security Advisory: Critical Remote Code Execution Fix

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch for memcached on Fedora 24 tackling various remote code execution vulnerabilities. Safeguard your system!
Security fix for CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705, CVE-2016-8706

Summary

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.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705, CVE-2016-8706

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security advisory fedora critical remote code execution memcached

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1390510 - CVE-2016-8704 memcached: Server append/prepend remote code execution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1390510 [ 2 ] Bug #1390511 - CVE-2016-8705 memcached: Server update remote code execution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1390511 [ 3 ] Bug #1390512 - CVE-2016-8706 memcached: SASL authentication remote code execution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1390512

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade memcached' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: memcached
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.4.25
Release: 2.fc24
URL: http://www.memcached.org/
Summary: High Performance, Distributed Memory Object Cache

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