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memcached < 1.5.14 DoS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
3 years ago
Modified
Modified
3 years ago
Summary
memcached is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
A NULL pointer dereference was found in the 'lru mode' and 'lru temp_ttl' commands. This causes a denial of service when parsing crafted lru command messages in process_lru_command in memcached.c.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Memcached version prior to 1.5.14.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 1.5.14 or later.