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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2080-1

Posted Jan 13, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2080-1 - Stefan Bucur discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain large body lengths. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Jeremy Sowden discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled logging certain details when the -vv option was used. An attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service. It was discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled SASL authentication. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass SASL authentication completely. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 13.10. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-4971, CVE-2013-0179, CVE-2013-7239, CVE-2011-4971, CVE-2013-0179, CVE-2013-7239

SHA-256 | 10e572ff8359631dd0ec75ed8707fbadc90cec0717a2e3312c268f06bb58708a

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