RHSA-2018:2290 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for memcached is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton) for RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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: Integer Overflow in items.c:item_free() (CVE-2018-1000127)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 10 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1555064 - CVE-2018-1000127 memcached: Integer Overflow in items.c:item_free()

CVEs

• CVE-2018-1000127

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate