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Red Hat Releases Security Guidance for Memcached
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 18:07:08 -0600
U.S. Department of Homeland Security US-CERT National Cyber Awareness System: Red Hat Releases Security Guidance for Memcached [ https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2018/03/03/Red-Hat-Releases-Security-Guidance-Memcached ] 03/03/2018 06:29 PM EST Original release date: March 03, 2018 Red Hat has released security recommendations to address potential Distributed Denial of Service attacks using Memcached. This misconfiguration could allow an attacker to exploit Memcached services as a reflection and amplification vector, causing unexpected volumes of traffic to be sent to targeted systems and networks. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Red Hat Advisories 3369081 [ https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3369081 ] and 1160613 [ https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1160613 ] as well as Alert TA14-017A [ https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-017A ] for more information. ________________________________________________________________________ This product is provided subject to this Notification [ http://www.us-cert.gov/privacy/notification ] and this Privacy & Use [ http://www.us-cert.gov/privacy/ ] policy. ________________________________________________________________________ A copy of this publication is available at www.us-cert.gov [ https://www.us-cert.gov ]. If you need help or have questions, please send an email to info () us-cert gov. Do not reply to this message since this email was sent from a notification-only address that is not monitored. To ensure you receive future US-CERT products, please add US-CERT () ncas us-cert gov to your address book. OTHER RESOURCES: Contact Us [ http://www.us-cert.gov/contact-us/ ] | Security Publications [ http://www.us-cert.gov/security-publications ] | Alerts and Tips [ http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas ] | Related Resources [ http://www.us-cert.gov/related-resources ] STAY CONNECTED: Sign up for email updates [ http://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSUSCERT/subscriber/new ]
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