[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] memcached: bump to version 1.5.6

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Apr 2 09:42:04 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Fri,  2 Mar 2018 10:07:55 -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote:
> From ReleaseNotes156
> 
> This is a bugfix release, but it primarily disables the UDP protocol by
> default.
> 
> In the last few days reports of UDP amplification attacks utilizing
> inesure memcached instances have surfaced. Attackers are able to set
> large values into memcached, then send requests via spoofed UDP packets.
> Memcached will then send a very large number of very large UDP packets
> back in response.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc at gmail.com>
> ---
>  package/memcached/memcached.hash | 7 +++----
>  package/memcached/memcached.mk   | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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