SB2020032418 - Denial of service in memcached
Published: March 24, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020032418
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) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10931)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing a binary protocol header within the try_read_command_binary() function in memcached.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted request to the memcached server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.