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CVE-2019-11596

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 29, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11596
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

In memcached before 1.5.14, a NULL pointer dereference was found in the lru mode and lru temp_ttl commands. This causes a denial of service when parsing crafted lru command messages in process_lru_command in memcached.c.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
MemcachedMemcached*1.5.14 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatmemcached-0:1.5.9-3.el8*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens)RedHatmemcached-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) for RHEL 7.6 EUSRedHatmemcached-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost*
MemcachedUbuntubionic*
MemcachedUbuntucosmic*
MemcachedUbuntudevel*
MemcachedUbuntudisco*
MemcachedUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
MemcachedUbuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References

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