CVE-2016-8706
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-06 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An integer overflow in process_bin_sasl_auth function in Memcached, which is responsible for authentication commands of Memcached binary protocol, can be abused to cause heap overflow and lead to remote code execution.
References
talos-cna@cisco.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2819.html
talos-cna@cisco.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3704
talos-cna@cisco.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94083
talos-cna@cisco.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037333
talos-cna@cisco.comhttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0221/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
talos-cna@cisco.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-12
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2819.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3704
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94083
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037333
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0221/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-12
Impacted products
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Memcached Memcached Version: 1.4.31
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