Vigil@nce - memcached: out-of-bounds memory reading via conn_to_str
November 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/?langue=2
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service, denial
of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 09/09/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
conn_to_str() of memcached, in order to trigger a denial of
service, or to obtain sensitive information.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/memcached-out-of-bounds-memory-reading-via-conn-to-str-30269