CVE-2018-1000127

Publication date 13 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

memcached version prior to 1.4.37 contains an Integer Overflow vulnerability in items.c:item_free() that can result in data corruption and deadlocks due to items existing in hash table being reused from free list. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to the memcached service. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.4.37 and later.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
memcached 17.10 artful
Fixed 1.4.33-1ubuntu3.3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.4.25-2ubuntu1.4
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.4.14-0ubuntu9.3

Patch details

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Package Patch details
memcached

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3601-1
    • Memcached vulnerability
    • 19 March 2018

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