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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-27478: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-27478: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/07/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

Description

libmemcached-awesome is an open source C/C++ client library and tools for the memcached server. `libmemcached` could return data for a previously requested key, if that previous request timed out due to a low `POLL_TIMEOUT`. This issue has been addressed in version 1.1.4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are several ways to workaround or lower the probability of this bug affecting a given deployment. 1: use a reasonably high `POLL_TIMEOUT` setting, like the default. 2: use separate libmemcached connections for unrelated data. 3: do not re-use libmemcached connections in an unknown state.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libmemcached

References

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