Memcached 1.6.x prima 1.6.2 permette attaccanti remoti di provocare una negazione del servizio (crash daemon) tramite un predisposto protocollo binario intestazione try_read_command_binary in memcached.c.
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/02c6a2b62ddcb6fa4569a591d3461a156a636305
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/629
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes162
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10931