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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.127322
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Memcached 1.5.15 < 1.6.10 DoS Vulnerability
Summary:Memcached is prone to a denial of service (DoS); vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Memcached is prone to a denial of service (DoS)
vulnerability.

Vulnerability Impact:
An attacker is able to cause a denial of service via crafted
authenticattion file due to a buffer overflow in authfile.c.

Affected Software/OS:
Memcached version 1.5.15 prior to 1.6.10.

Solution:
Update to version 1.6.10 or later.

CVSS Score:
4.9

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-37519
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/805
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/806/commits/264722ae4e248b453be00e97197dadc685b60fd0
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