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Critical USN-3120-1 3 CVEs

memcached vulnerabilities

Published Nov 2, 2016 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain
malformed commands. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS memcached 1.4.14-0ubuntu9.1
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS memcached 1.4.25-2ubuntu1.2

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8704
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8705
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8706