SB2014020526 - Memory corruption in memcached (Alpine package)
Published: February 5, 2014
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014020526
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-7291)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to boundary error when running in verbose mode. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted request that triggers an "unbounded key print" during logging, related to an issue that was "quickly grepped out of the source tree", and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.