CVE-2016-8705: Memcached Memcached

Memcached: Multiple integer overflows in process_bin_update function in Memcached…

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.20 · 97th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.20 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: talos) at 6 Jan 2017, 21:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Memcached	Memcached	affected 1.4.31

Identifiers

CVE-2016-8705

CNA

talos

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (talos)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.20, the 97th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 6 Jan 2017. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-12 vendor-advisorygentoo
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3704 vendor-advisorydebian
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2819.html vendor-advisoryredhat
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94083 vdb-entrybid
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2820.html vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0059 vendor-advisoryredhat
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037333 vdb-entrysectrack
www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0220/

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.