Advisories ยป MGASA-2016-0381

Updated memcached packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Nov 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-8704 , CVE-2016-8705 , CVE-2016-8706

Description

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain
malformed commands. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code (CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705, CVE-2016-8706).
                

References

SRPMS

5/core