[Package Request] - Upgrade memcached package version

[mateuszligeza]

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2023? Please describe and include package name.

The memcached package is not missing from Amazon Linux 2023, but it requires an update to the latest stable version.

Is this an update to existing package or new package request?

This is an update to an existing package.

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? If it is available via external sources such as EPEL, please specify.

memcached is available in Fedora and other distributions. For example: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/memcached/memcached/

The latest version from the memcached website https://memcached.org/downloads is 1.6.42

Any additional information you'd like to include. (use-cases, etc)

The latest version of Memcached fixes 2 CVEs with 8.1 Score

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47783
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47784

Reference: https://memcached.org/ and https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes