Check Point Advisories

Oracle MySQL Server InnoDB Memcached Plugin Resource Exhaustion - High Confidence (CVE-2013-1570)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-1833
Date Published: 21 Jul 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 10 November, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-1570
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A memory exhaustion vulnerability has been reported in the InnoDB memcached plugin component of Oracle MySQL Server. This vulnerability is due to incorrect freeing of allocated memory when processing certain type of requests. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending large numbers of a certain type of command to the memcached plugin of MySQL server.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Oracle MySQL Server InnoDB Memcached Plugin Resource Exhaustion - High Confidence protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  MySQL Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Oracle MySQL Server InnoDB Memcached Plugin resource exhaustion - high confidence

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