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CVE-2023-27478
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-03-07T18:15:09.247 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:45:17.623

Summary

libmemcached-awesome is an open source C/C++ client library and tools for the memcached server. `libmemcached` could return data for a previously requested key, if that previous request timed out due to a low `POLL_TIMEOUT`. This issue has been addressed in version 1.1.4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are several ways to workaround or lower the probability of this bug affecting a given deployment. 1: use a reasonably high `POLL_TIMEOUT` setting, like the default. 2: use separate libmemcached connections for unrelated data. 3: do not re-use libmemcached connections in an unknown state.

Affected products

awesome — libmemcached

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References

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