Vulnerability CVE-2013-7291
Published: 2014-01-13   Modified: 2014-01-14

Description:
memcached before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request that triggers an "unbounded key print" during logging, related to an issue that was "quickly grepped out of the source tree," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0179 and CVE-2013-7290.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.8/10
2.9/10
3.2/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Adjacent network
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Memcached -> Memcached 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64989
https://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=306
https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1417
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