usn-3588-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-03-05 15:02
Modified
2026-02-10 04:41
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)

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      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
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  "id": "USN-3588-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:41:17Z",
  "published": "2018-03-05T15:02:20Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000115"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "memcached vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9951",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000115"
  ]
}



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