CVE-2019-11596

Published: 29 April 2019

In memcached before 1.5.14, a NULL pointer dereference was found in the "lru mode" and "lru temp_ttl" commands. This causes a denial of service when parsing crafted lru command messages in process_lru_command in memcached.c.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
memcached Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	upstream	Released (1.5.14)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	bionic	Released (1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1)
	cosmic	Released (1.5.10-0ubuntu1.18.10.1)
	disco	Released (1.5.10-0ubuntu1.19.04.1)
	Patches: upstream: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/d35334f368817a77a6bd1f33c6a5676b2c402c02

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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