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        "text": "This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Cloud Linux Inc. and provide a link to the original.",
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          "details": "Not affected: CVE-2023-46852 targets memcached’s built-in proxy code path during multiget handling; memcached 1.4.25 predates the 1.6.x proxy feature, so that code is not present. With the proxy component absent, the vulnerable path is unreachable in this environment.",
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