Title: memcached Memory Consumption Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
memcached is a database-caching application available for multiple operating systems.
memcached is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. Specifically when a large amount of data without a terminating '\n' is provided, the application allocates a large amount of memory.
An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the application to allocate large amount of memory, hanging or crashing the application.
memcached versions prior to 1.4.3 are affected.
Affected Products:
- Memcached memcached 1.4.2
- Pardus Linux 2009
References:
- CVE: CVE-2010-1152
- Memcached: Commit 75cc83685e103bc8ba380a57468c8f04413033f9 to memcached's memcached
- Memcached: Commit d9cd01ede97f4145af9781d448c62a3318952719 to memcached's memcached
- Memcached: Issue 102: PIping null to the server will crash it
- Memcached: memcached Homepage
- Pardus: Bug 12672 - memcached: Denial of Service via a Long Line (CVE-2010-1152)
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