CVE-2021-32765CWE-190CWE-680

Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in Hiredis

High · published October 4, 2021

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
2%
Percentile
81.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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](https://github.com/redis/hiredis#reader-max-array-elements) context option to a value small enough that no overflow is possible.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02139 · 81.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound; CWE-680 · Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow
Published
2021-10-04T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 00:00Z
    Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in Hiredis
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