CVE-2013-7290
memcached: remote DoS (segmentation fault) via a request to delete a key
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · January 8, 2013
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
The do_item_get function in items.c in memcached 1.4.4 and other versions before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a request to delete a key, which does not account for the lack of a null terminator in the key and triggers a buffer over-read when printing to stderr, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0179.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 1.8AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE not specified