CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8704

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-01-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

An integer overflow in the process_bin_append_prepend 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 configurations

• memcached memcached (<= 1.4.31)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References