CVE-2019-11596
High
CVE-2019-11596
In memcached before 1.5.14, a NULL pointer dereference was found in the "lru mode" and "lru temp_ttl" commands. This causes a denial of service when parsing crafted lru command messages in process_lru_command in memcached.c.
Exploit probability
3.0%
Published
April 29, 2019
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
72 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2019-11596
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In memcached before 1.5.14, a NULL pointer dereference was found in the "lru mode" and "lru temp_ttl" commands. This causes a denial of service when parsing crafted lru command messages in process_lru_command in memcached.c.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00060.html
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/d35334f368817a77a6bd1f33c6a5676b2c402c02
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/compare/ee1cfe3...50bdc9f
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/474
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUE3QBMP5UWTXMPKJREUICH6DIK6SOBX/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y2CCWRM4LHB253KG5SPOKRVDCXQX5VZR/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3963-1/