CVE-2017-9951
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2017-9951 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
CVSS v3 metrics
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.3 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Low |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 | memcached | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) | memcached | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 | memcached | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) | memcached | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | memcached | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 | memcached | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 | memcached | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | memcached | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | memcached | Will not fix |
Mitigation
This flaw is in the memcached binary protocol. If your client programs only use the ASCII protocol when communicating with memcached, you can disable the binary protocol and protect against this flaw by adding "-B ascii" to OPTIONS in /etc/sysconfig/memcached.
CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation
