Out-of-Bounds Affecting memcached/memcached package, versions [,1.4.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MEMCACHEDMEMCACHED-2365342
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jan 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jan 2014

CVE-2013-7291  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade memcached/memcached to version 1.4.17 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds memcached before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request that triggers an "unbounded key print" during logging, related to an issue that was "quickly grepped out of the source tree," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0179 and CVE-2013-7290.

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