Debian Security Advisory 1853-1 – Ronald Volgers discovered that memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system, is vulnerable to several heap-based buffer overflows due to integer conversions when parsing certain length attributes. An attacker can use this to execute arbitrary code on the system running memcached (on etch with root privileges).
You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/80192/dsa-1853-1.txt
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