CVE-2010-1152

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-04-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

memcached.c in memcached before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon hang or crash) via a long line that triggers excessive memory allocation. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Memcachedb Memcached: through 1.4.2; 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.1.0, 0.1.1 (+14)

References

http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/input_validation_vulnerability_in_memcached
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=102
http://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/75cc83685e103bc8ba380a57468c8f04413033f9
http://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/d9cd01ede97f4145af9781d448c62a3318952719
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127074597129559&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127075341110616&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127075808518733&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/39306
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023839
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0442

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