CVE-2021-32762CWE-190CWE-680

Integer overflow that can lead to heap overflow in redis-cli, redis-sentinel on some platforms

High · published October 4, 2021

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
3%
Percentile
85.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. The redis-cli command line tool and redis-sentinel service may be vulnerable to integer overflow when parsing specially crafted large multi-bulk network replies. This is a result of a vulnerability in the underlying hiredis library which does not perform an overflow check before calling the calloc() heap allocation function. This issue only impacts systems with heap allocators that do not perform their own overflow checks. Most modern systems do and are therefore not likely to be affected. Furthermore, by default redis-sentinel uses the jemalloc allocator which is also not vulnerable. The problem is fixed in Redis versions 6.2.6, 6.0.16 and 5.0.14.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02558 · 85.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound; CWE-680 · Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow
Published
2021-10-04T18:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 18:00Z
    Integer overflow that can lead to heap overflow in redis-cli, redis-sentinel on some platforms
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