Denial of Service Vulnerability in Memcached 1.4.5 and Earlier

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Memcached 1.4.5 and Earlier

CVE-2011-4971 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Multiple integer signedness errors in the (1) process_bin_sasl_auth, (2) process_bin_complete_sasl_auth, (3) process_bin_update, and (4) process_bin_append_prepend functions in Memcached 1.4.5 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large body length value in a packet.

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