Buffer overflow in Memcached

CVE-2013-7290

The do_item_get function in items.c in memcached 1.4.4 and other versions before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a request to delete a key, which does not account for the lack of a null terminator in the key and triggers a buffer over-read when printing to stderr, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0179.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.009 (57.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Memcached — versions 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References