MGASA-2021-0562 - Updated hiredis packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Dec 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0562.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2021-32765

Updated hiredis packages fix security vulnerability:

It was discovered that there was an integer-overflow vulnerability in
hiredis, a C client library for communicating with Redis databases.
This occurred within the handling and parsing of 'multi-bulk' replies
(CVE-2021-32765).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29549
- https://github.com/redis/hiredis/security/advisories/GHSA-hfm9-39pp-55p2
- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2783
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32765

SRPMS:
- 8/core/hiredis-0.13.3-6.1.mga8

Mageia 2021-0562: hiredis security update

Updated hiredis packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that there was an integer-overflow vulnerability in hiredis, a C client library for communicating with Redis...

Summary

Updated hiredis packages fix security vulnerability:
It was discovered that there was an integer-overflow vulnerability in hiredis, a C client library for communicating with Redis databases. This occurred within the handling and parsing of 'multi-bulk' replies (CVE-2021-32765).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29549

- https://github.com/redis/hiredis/security/advisories/GHSA-hfm9-39pp-55p2

- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2783

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32765

Resolution

MGASA-2021-0562 - Updated hiredis packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 8/core/hiredis-0.13.3-6.1.mga8

Severity
Publication date: 19 Dec 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0562.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-32765

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