The host is running Memcached and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.

Successful exploitation will allow attacker to cause a denial of service. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to the latest version of Memcached 1.4.3 or later, For updates refer to http://memcached.org

The flaw is due to error in try_read_command() function that allows attacker to temporarily hang or potentially crash the server by sending an overly large number of bytes.

Memcached 1.4.2 and prior

• http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=102
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39306

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Updated on 2015-03-25