VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-1152

medium
Published 2010-04-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

memcached.c in memcached before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon hang or crash) via a long line that triggers excessive memory allocation. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33850 dos linux verified text · 1 KB
fallenpegasus · 2010-04-27

memcached 1.4.2 - Memory Consumption Remote Denial of Service

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB 
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39577/info

memcached is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the application to allocate large amount of memory, hanging or crashing the application.

memcached versions prior to 1.4.3 are affected. 

cat /dev/zero | nc -q1 127.0.0.1 11211

OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.4.5-1
sid Fixed 1.4.5-1
forky Fixed 1.4.5-1
bullseye Fixed 1.4.5-1
bookworm Fixed 1.4.5-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
memcachedbmemcached{"endIncluding":"1.4.2"}
memcachedbmemcached0.0.1
memcachedbmemcached0.0.2
memcachedbmemcached0.0.3
memcachedbmemcached0.0.4
memcachedbmemcached0.1.0
memcachedbmemcached0.1.1
memcachedbmemcached1.0.0
memcachedbmemcached1.0.1
memcachedbmemcached1.0.2
memcachedbmemcached1.0.3
memcachedbmemcached1.0.4
memcachedbmemcached1.1.0
memcachedbmemcached1.1.12
memcachedbmemcached1.2.0
memcachedbmemcached1.2.1
memcachedbmemcached1.2.2
memcachedbmemcached1.2.8
memcachedbmemcached1.4.0
memcachedbmemcached1.4.1

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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