Buffer overflow in Memcached

CVE-2013-7291

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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

Affected products

  • Memcached — versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References