Submit #916217: Memcached 1.6.41 through 1.6.43 Out-of-Bounds Readinfo

TitleMemcached 1.6.41 through 1.6.43 Out-of-Bounds Read
DescriptionMemcached 1.6.41 through 1.6.43, when started with ASCII authentication (-Y), allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the process (denial of service) by sending three newline bytes after connecting. A zero-length auth token reaches the mcmc tokenizer, causing a pointer underflow, out-of-bounds read, and SIGSEGV that terminates the entire memcached process.
Source⚠️ https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/af05c9302bba508b736c3da1d5670f63fe8b7db4
User
 Ebfe7001d27b27064356271ddfb15d59 (UID 100393)
Submission08/05/2026 16:02 (1 month ago)
Moderation09/13/2026 07:23 (1 month later)
StatusAccepted
VulDB entry403231 [memcached 1.6.41/1.6.42/1.6.43 mcmc Tokenizer proto_text.c try_read_command_asciiauth out-of-bounds]
Points18

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