CVE-2018-1000127

Summary

CVECVE-2018-1000127
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-13 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
Descriptionmemcached version prior to 1.4.37 contains an Integer Overflow vulnerability in items.c:item_free() that can result in data corruption and deadlocks due to items existing in hash table being reused from free list. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to the memcached service. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.4.37 and later.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190 | CWE-667

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached All All All All
Application Memcached Memcached All All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 10 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 10 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ReleaseNotes1437 · memcached/memcached Wiki · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Don't overflow item refcount on get · memcached/memcached@a8c4a82 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4218-1 memcached DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Memcached gets a dead loop in func assoc_find · Issue #271 · memcached/memcached · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1329-1] memcached security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
USN-3601-1: Memcached vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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