Integer overflow in memcached - CVE-2018-1000127

Vulnerability identifier: #VU11124

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000127

CWE-ID: CWE-190

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the items.c:item_free() function due to improper bounds checks. A remote attacker can trigger integer overflow and cause the service to crash.

memcached
Debian Linux
Red Hat OpenStack

Update to version 1.4.37 or later.

• https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/a8c4a82787b8b6c256d61bd5c42fb7f92d1bae00

• Denial of service in Dormando Memcached
• Debian update for memcached
• Red Hat update for memcached