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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-761
Advisory Release Date: 2016-11-10 18:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-11-10 18:00 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the memcached binary protocol. An attacker could create a specially crafted message that would cause the memcached server to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705)
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in memcached's parsing of SASL authentication messages. An attacker could create a specially crafted message that would cause the memcached server to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8706)
Affected Packages:
memcached
Issue Correction:
Run yum update memcached to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
memcached-1.4.15-9.13.amzn1.i686
memcached-debuginfo-1.4.15-9.13.amzn1.i686
memcached-devel-1.4.15-9.13.amzn1.i686
src:
memcached-1.4.15-9.13.amzn1.src
x86_64:
memcached-1.4.15-9.13.amzn1.x86_64
memcached-devel-1.4.15-9.13.amzn1.x86_64
memcached-debuginfo-1.4.15-9.13.amzn1.x86_64