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Ubuntu: USN-3963-1 (CVE-2019-11596): Memcached vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3963-1 (CVE-2019-11596): Memcached vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/29/2019
Created
05/08/2019
Added
05/04/2019
Modified
11/07/2024

Description

In memcached before 1.5.14, a NULL pointer dereference was found in the "lru mode" and "lru temp_ttl" commands. This causes a denial of service when parsing crafted lru command messages in process_lru_command in memcached.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-memcached

References

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