CVE-2016-8706

Upstream information

CVE-2016-8706 at MITRE

Description

An integer overflow in process_bin_sasl_auth function in Memcached, which is responsible for authentication commands of Memcached binary protocol, can be abused to cause heap overflow and lead to remote code execution.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database	SUSE
Base Score	6.8	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network	Network
Access Complexity	Medium	Medium
Authentication	None	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.1
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1007866 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE], 1007869 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SU-2018:0778-1, published Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:27:53 +0100 (CET)
• SUSE-SU-2018:0807-1, published Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:09:40 +0200 (CEST)
• openSUSE-SU-2016:2839-1, published Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:12:38 +0100 (CET)
• openSUSE-SU-2016:2841-1, published Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:14:50 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4	memcached >= 1.4.39-3.3.2	Patchnames: SUSE-Storage-4-2018-529
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5	memcached >= 1.4.39-4.6.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1	memcached >= 1.5.6-2.10 memcached-devel >= 1.5.6-2.10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3	memcached >= 1.4.33-3.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5	memcached-devel >= 1.4.39-4.6.1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6	memcached >= 1.4.39-3.3.1	Patchnames: SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2018-545
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7	memcached >= 1.4.39-3.3.2	Patchnames: SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2018-529
openSUSE Leap 42.1	memcached >= 1.4.22-6.1 memcached-debuginfo >= 1.4.22-6.1 memcached-debugsource >= 1.4.22-6.1 memcached-devel >= 1.4.22-6.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2016-1313
openSUSE Leap 42.2	memcached >= 1.4.33-7.1 memcached-debuginfo >= 1.4.33-7.1 memcached-debugsource >= 1.4.33-7.1 memcached-devel >= 1.4.33-7.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2016-1314
openSUSE Tumbleweed	memcached >= 1.4.33-1.1 memcached-devel >= 1.4.33-1.1	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA memcached

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification.

Product(s)	Source package	State
SUSE Cloud 5	memcached	Ignore
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4	memcached	Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6	memcached	Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7	memcached	Released
SUSE Studio Onsite	memcached	Ignore