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Redis Heap Overflow Vulnerability (Oct 2020)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Databases
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
2 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
Redis is prone to a heap overflow vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
A heap overflow issue was found in Redis when using a heap allocator other than jemalloc or glibc's malloc, leading to potential out of bound write or process crash. Effectively this flaw does not affect the vast majority of users, who use jemalloc or glibc malloc.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Redis versions 5.0.9 and prior and 6.x prior to 6.0.9.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 5.0.10, 6.0.9 or later.