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CVE-2016-8705

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 19.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in process_bin_update function in Memcached, which is responsible for processing multiple commands of Memcached binary protocol, can be abused to cause heap overflow and lead to remote code execution.

Affected products

• Memcached: through 1.4.31

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2819.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2820.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3704
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94083
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037333
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0220/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0059
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-12
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2819.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2820.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3704
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94083

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