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Unscored USN-3588-1 2 CVEs

memcached vulnerabilities

Published Mar 5, 2018 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Daniel Shapira discovered an integer overflow issue in Memcached. A remote
attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (daemon crash).
(CVE-2017-9951)

It was discovered that Memcached listened to UDP by default. A remote
attacker could use this as part of a distributed denial of service attack.
(CVE-2018-1000115)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS memcached 1.4.14-0ubuntu9.2
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS memcached 1.4.25-2ubuntu1.3

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9951
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000115