RedHat: RHSA-2020-1576:01 Moderate: memcached security update
Summary
memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system,
generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web
applications by alleviating database load.
Security Fix(es):
* memcached: null-pointer dereference in "lru mode" and "lru temp_ttl"
causing denial of service (CVE-2019-11596)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Summary
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11596 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
memcached-1.5.9-3.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
memcached-1.5.9-3.el8.aarch64.rpm
memcached-debuginfo-1.5.9-3.el8.aarch64.rpm
memcached-debugsource-1.5.9-3.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
memcached-1.5.9-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
memcached-debuginfo-1.5.9-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
memcached-debugsource-1.5.9-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
memcached-1.5.9-3.el8.s390x.rpm
memcached-debuginfo-1.5.9-3.el8.s390x.rpm
memcached-debugsource-1.5.9-3.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
memcached-1.5.9-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
memcached-debuginfo-1.5.9-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
memcached-debugsource-1.5.9-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
Topic
An update for memcached is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Bugs Fixed
1706001 - CVE-2019-11596 memcached: null-pointer dereference in "lru mode" and "lru temp_ttl" causing denial of service