Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting redis/hiredis package, versions [,1.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.14% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-REDISHIREDIS-2319470
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed4 Oct 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-32765  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-680  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade redis/hiredis to version 1.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1