CVE-2018-1000127 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2018-1000127?

CVE-2018-1000127 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 Mar 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

memcached version prior to 1.4.37 contains an Integer Overflow vulnerability in items.c:item_free() that can result in data corruption and deadlocks due to items existing in hash table being reused from free list. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to the memcached service. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.4.37 and later.

Weakness: CWE-667, CWE-190

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1000127?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Memcached Memcached, Redhat Openstack.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1000127?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-1000127 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1000127 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000127, DLA-1329-1, GHSA-xfxv-84p3-w8rg, RHSA-2018:2290, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000127, USN-3601-1.