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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201701-12
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 Severity: Normal
    Title: memcached: Multiple vulnerabilities
     Date: January 02, 2017
     Bugs: #598836
       ID: 201701-12

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in memcached which could lead
to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching
system

Affected packages
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     Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
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  1  net-misc/memcached           < 1.4.33                  >= 1.4.33

Description
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Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in memcached.
Please review the CVE identifiers and Cisco TALOS reports referenced
below for details.

Impact
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A remote attacker could abuse memcached's binary protocol leading to
the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All memcached users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/memcached-1.4.33"

References
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[ 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
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-12

Concerns?
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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.

License
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Copyright 2017 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/