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CVE-2018-1000127
high
Description
memcached version prior to 1.4.37 contains an Integer Overflow vulnerability in items.c:item_free() that can result in data corruption and deadlocks due to items existing in hash table being reused from free list. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to the memcached service. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.4.37 and later.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4218
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3601-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00031.html
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1437
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/271
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/a8c4a82787b8b6c256d61bd5c42fb7f92d1bae00