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memcached -- memcached stats maps Information Disclosure Weakness

Description:

Secunia reports:

A weakness has been reported in memcached, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose system information.

The weakness is caused due to the application disclosing the content of /proc/self/maps if a stats maps command is received. This can be exploited to disclose e.g. the addresses of allocated memory regions.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: memcached -- memcached stats maps Information Disclosure Weakness

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>