The tryreadcommand function in memcached.c in memcached before 1.4.39 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a request to add/set a key, which makes a comparison between signed and unsigned int and triggers a heap-based buffer over-read. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8705.
{
"source": "CPE_FIELD",
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:memcached:memcached:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "1.4.38"
}
]
}