| Name | CVE-2013-7239 |
| Description | memcached before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending an invalid request with SASL credentials, then sending another request with incorrect SASL credentials. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; oss-sec, fulldisc, OSVDB, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, more) |
| References | DSA-2832-1 |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 733643 |
| Debian/oldstable | not vulnerable. |
| Debian/stable | not vulnerable. |
| Debian/testing | not vulnerable. |
| Debian/unstable | not vulnerable. |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| memcached (PTS) | squeeze (security), squeeze | 1.4.5-1+deb6u1 | fixed |
| wheezy, wheezy (security) | 1.4.13-0.2+deb7u1 | fixed |
| jessie, sid | 1.4.21-1 | fixed |
The information above is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[squeeze] - memcached <not-affected> (vulnerable code present, but SASL authentication support not enabled)
https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1417
https://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=316
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/87c1cf0f20be20608d3becf854e9cf0910f4ad32