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CVE-2010-1152 json

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 trig…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-1183

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.4%
EPSS 10.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • memcached Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.4.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2010-1152

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red hat product security vex CVE-2010-1152 updated cvss 5.0

(v1.2.8): Remote denial of service (excessive memory use, hang / crash)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-33850)

Exploit prediction

10.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-33850 memcached 1.4.2 - Memory Consumption Remote Denial of Service dos, 2010-04-27
  • code.google.com http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=102 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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