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memcached
by:
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7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Remote Denial-of-Service
Unknown
CWE
Product Name: memcached
Affected Version From: Prior to 1.4.3
Affected Version To: Unknown
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE:
CPE: memcached
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Platforms Tested:
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memcached Remote Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the application to allocate a large amount of memory, hanging or crashing the application.

Mitigation:

Upgrade to memcached version 1.4.3 or later.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39577/info

memcached is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability.

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. 

cat /dev/zero | nc -q1 127.0.0.1 11211