Secunia Advisory SA34915

memcached "'stats maps" Information Disclosure Weakness
Secunia Advisory SA34915
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Release Date 2009-04-29
   
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Exposure of system information
Where From local network
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Software:
memcached 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-1255 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A weakness has been reported in memcached, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose system information.

The weakness is caused due to the application disclosing the content of "/proc/self/maps" if a "stats maps" command is received. This can be exploited to disclose e.g. the addresses of allocated memory regions.

The weakness is reported in version 1.2.7. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 1.2.8.

Provided and/or discovered by
Positron Security

Original Advisory
memcached:
http://groups.google.com/group/memcached/browse_thread/thread/ff96a9b88fb5d40e

Positron Security:
http://www.positronsecurity.com/advisories/2009-001.html

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