Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0381 (memcached)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0381: Updated memcached packages fix security vulnerability 
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Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:37:32 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0381 - Updated memcached packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Nov 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0381.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-8704,
     CVE-2016-8705,
     CVE-2016-8706

Description:
Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain
malformed commands. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code (CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705, CVE-2016-8706).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19689
- https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3120-1/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8704
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8705
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8706

SRPMS:
- 5/core/memcached-1.4.25-1.mga5