CVE-2011-4971

Summary

CVECVE-2011-4971
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-12-12 18:55:00 UTC
Updated2018-03-25 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Memcached Memcached 1.2.7 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.2.8 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.0 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.1 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.2 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.3 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.4 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.2.7 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.2.8 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.0 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.1 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.2 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.3 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached 1.4.4 All All All
Application Memcached Memcached All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Memcached Remote Denial of Service PoC | Insecurety Research MISC insecurety.net Exploit
USN-2080-1: Memcached vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
CVE-2011-4971 Memcached vulnerability | Puppet CONFIRM puppet.com
Issue 192 - memcached - Crash when sending specially crafted packet - Memcached - Google Project Hosting MISC code.google.com Exploit, Patch
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2832-1 memcached DEBIAN www.debian.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:280 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
memcached Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Security Advisory SA56183 - Debian update for memcached - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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