memcached: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in memcached, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service. memcached 2014-06-15 2014-06-15 279386 452098 467962 496506 498078 remote 1.4.17 1.4.17

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system

memcached authentication could be bypassed when using SASL due to a flaw related to SASL authentication state. Also several heap-based buffer overflows due to integer conversions when parsing certain length attributes were discovered.

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition or authenticate with invalid SASL credentials, bypassing memcached authentication completely.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All memcached users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/memcached-1.4.17" CVE-2009-2415 CVE-2013-7239 CVE-2011-4971 CVE-2013-0179 CVE-2013-7290 CVE-2013-7291 BlueKnight BlueKnight