ubuntu · CVE-2016-8705

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Priority: high Published: 2016-11-02 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:12:39 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-8705 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (memcached), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): released 5.

Description:

Multiple integer overflows in process_bin_update 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.

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