CVE-2019-11596

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 12
Modified
Published: 29 Apr 2019, 14:46
Last modified:04 Aug 2024, 22:55

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
40/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.55% LOW
2% probability -0.09%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

29 Apr 2019, 14:46
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Aug 2024, 22:55
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.55%• Percentile: 82%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference

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

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    18.04 | 18.10 | 19.04

  • memcached•memcached

    < 1.5.14

References (7)