Please Install the Updated Packages.

Stefan Bucur discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain large body lengths. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4971) Jeremy Sowden discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled logging certain details when the -vv option was used. An attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-0179) It was discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled SASL authentication. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass SASL authentication completely. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2013-7239)

memcached on Ubuntu 13.10 , Ubuntu 13.04 , Ubuntu 12.10 , Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-January/002371.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25