| Title | Memcached 1.6.41 > 1.6.43 Out-of-Bounds Read |
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| Description | A pre-authentication remote denial-of-service vulnerability affects memcached 1.6.41 through 1.6.43 when started with ASCII authentication (-Y <authfile>). An unauthenticated client can trigger a crash by sending three newline bytes (\n\n\n) immediately after connecting. The authentication path forwards an empty line to the vendored mcmc tokenizer without validating that the token length is non-zero. Because _mcmc_tokenize_meta() assumes an input length of at least two bytes, it performs out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic and enters an unbounded scan that ultimately dereferences unmapped memory, causing the memcached process to terminate with SIGSEGV. |
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| Source | ⚠️ https://protectiv.ph/research/memcached-asciiauth-empty-line-dos |
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| User | Ebfe7001d27b27064356271ddfb15d59 (UID 100393) |
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| Submission | 08/05/2026 16:06 (1 month ago) |
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| Moderation | 09/13/2026 07:24 (1 month later) |
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| Status | Duplicate |
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| VulDB entry | 403231 [memcached 1.6.41/1.6.42/1.6.43 mcmc Tokenizer proto_text.c try_read_command_asciiauth out-of-bounds] |
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| Points | 0 |
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