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Red Hat OpenStack 10.0 RHSA-2018-2290-01 Moderate Memcached Issue

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Calendar Grey July 30, 2018
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Significant security patch released for memcached within Red Hat OpenStack Platform, affecting RHEL 7 environments.
An update for memcached is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton) for RHEL 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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.
Security fix(es):
* memcached: Integer Overflow in items.c:item_free() (CVE-2018-1000127)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity integer overflow RHEL memcached Red Hat OpenStack

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000127 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0:
Source: memcached-1.4.39-2.el7ost.src.rpm
x86_64: memcached-1.4.39-2.el7ost.x86_64.rpm memcached-debuginfo-1.4.39-2.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2290-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2290
Issue date: 2018-07-30

Topic

An update for memcached is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform10.0 (Newton) for RHEL 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity integer overflow RHEL memcached Red Hat OpenStack

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1555064 - CVE-2018-1000127 memcached: Integer Overflow in items.c:item_free()

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