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TITLE:
memcached Packet Processing Memory Consumption Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39306

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39306/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in memcached, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to potentially cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The weakness is caused due to the application improperly handling
received TCP data. This can be exploited to consume large amounts of
memory and temporarily hang or potentially crash an affected server
by sending an overly large number of bytes without a terminating
newline ('\n') character to TCP port 11211.

The weakness is reported in version 1.2.8. Other versions may also be
affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.3 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by fallenpegasus in a memcached bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=102

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