Gentoo: GLSA-201701-12 Normal: Memcached Code Execution Risk
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January 2, 2017
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in memcached which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in memcached. Please review the CVE identifiers and Cisco TALOS reports referenced below for details.
Topics Covered
Resolution
All memcached users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/memcached-1.4.33"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2016-8704 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8704 [ 2 ] CVE-2016-8705 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8705 [ 3 ] CVE-2016-8706 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8706 [ 4 ] TALOS-2016-0219 https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0219/ [ 5 ] TALOS-2016-0220 https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0220/ [ 6 ] TALOS-2016-0221 https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0221/
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-12
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Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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Severity: Normal
Title: memcached: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 02, 2017
Bugs: #598836
ID: 201701-12
Topics Covered
Background
memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching
system
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/memcached < 1.4.33 >= 1.4.33
Impact
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A remote attacker could abuse memcached's binary protocol leading to
the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
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