CVE-2018-1000115

It was discovered that the memcached connections using UDP transport protocol can be abused for efficient traffic amplification distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. A remote attacker could send a malicious UDP request using a spoofed source IP address of a target system to memcached, causing it to send a significantly larger response to the target.

Mitigation

Please refer to the Red Hat Knowledgebase article 3369081 for instructions on how to properly secure memcached installations to prevent them from being used in an attack.

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