USN-3120-1

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain malformed commands. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / memcached

Package

Name: memcached
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/memcached@1.4.14-0ubuntu9.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.4.14-0ubuntu9.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.4.14-0ubuntu4

1.4.14-0ubuntu8

1.4.14-0ubuntu9

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "memcached",
            "binary_version": "1.4.14-0ubuntu9.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "memcached-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.4.14-0ubuntu9.1"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / memcached

Package

Name: memcached
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/memcached@1.4.25-2ubuntu1.2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.4.25-2ubuntu1.2

Affected versions

1.*

1.4.24-2ubuntu1

1.4.25-1ubuntu2

1.4.25-2ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "memcached",
            "binary_version": "1.4.25-2ubuntu1.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "memcached-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.4.25-2ubuntu1.2"
        }
    ]
}