Memcached is an open-source, high-performance, distributed memory caching system used to speed up dynamic websites which rely on a database backend. Vulnerabilities identified by Aleksandar Nikolich of Talos. They include multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution on the targeted system. These vulnerabilities manifest in various functions that are used in inserting, appending, prepending, or modifying key-value data pairs. This enables reliable exploitation which makes these vulnerabilities severe.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/10/memcached-vulnerabilities.html