vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-8704: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 6, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An integer overflow in the process_bin_append_prepend function in Memcached, which is responsible for processing multiple commands of Memcached binary protocol, can be abused to cause heap overflow and lead to remote code execution.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-memcached
Title
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