CVE-2013-0179: Memcached

Low severity, CVSS 1.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The process_bin_delete function in memcached.c in memcached 1.4.4 and other versions before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a request to delete a key, which does not account for the lack of a null terminator in the key and triggers a buffer over-read when printing to stderr.

Affected products

• Memcached Memcached: version 1.4.4 only; version 1.4.5 only; version 1.4.6 only; version 1.4.7 only; version 1.4.8 only; version 1.4.9 only; …

Published 2014-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.