Memcached 'item_free()' function integer overflow vulnerability

Memcached is the American software developer Brad Fitzpatrick Brad Fitzpatrick developed a set of high-performance distributed memory object caching system. The system by caching data and objects in memory to reduce the number of times to read the database , thus improving the speed of access to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000127

memcached version prior to 1.4.37 contains an Integer Overflow vulnerability in items.c:itemfree that can result in data corruption and deadlocks due to items existing in hash table being reused from free list. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to the memcached service...