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CVE-2021-32765

Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in Hiredis

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.0.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for the Redis database. In affected versions Hiredis is vulnurable to integer overflow if provided maliciously crafted or corrupted `RESP` `mult-bulk` protocol data. When parsing `multi-bulk` (array-like) replies, hiredis fails to check if `count * sizeof(redisReply*)` can be represented in `SIZE_MAX`. If it can not, and the `calloc()` call doesn't itself make this check, it would result in a short allocation and subsequent buffer overflow. Users of hiredis who are unable to update may set the maxelements context option to a value small enough that no overflow is possible.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • redis hiredis

    fixed in 1.0.1

References 6

GitHub · redis/hiredis

wiki.sei.cmu.edu

lists.debian.org

security.netapp.com

security.gentoo.org