Memcached Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Summary
The host is running Memcached and is prone to Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities.
Impact
Successful exploitation will let the attacker craft malicious commands and pass it to the vulnerable functions to gain sensitive information about the application i.e. disclosure of locations of memory regions and defeat ASLR protections, by sending a command to the daemon's TCP port.
Solution
Upgrade to the latest version 1.2.8 http://www.danga.com/memcached
Insight
- Error in process_stat function discloses the contents of /proc/self/maps in response to a stats maps command. - Error in process_stat function which discloses memory allocation statistics in response to a stats malloc command.
Affected
Memcached version prior to 1.2.8
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