USN-3588-1

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    USN-3588-1

    Published: 5 Mar 2018Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: memcached vulnerabilities

    Details: Daniel Shapira discovered an integer overflow issue in Memcached. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (daemon crash). (CVE-2017-9951) It was discovered that Memcached listened to UDP by default. A remote attacker could use this as part of a distributed denial of service attack. (CVE-2018-1000115)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3588-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9951, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000115

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: memcached

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.4.14-0ubuntu9.2

    Affected versions

    1.4.14-0ubuntu4
    1.4.14-0ubuntu8
    1.4.14-0ubuntu9
    1.4.14-0ubuntu9.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High