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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade hiredis | Mar 21, 2024 | Oct 4, 2021 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade hiredis-develUpgrade hiredis-debuginfoUpgrade hiredis | Sep 28, 2023 | Oct 4, 2021 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade hiredis | Nov 29, 2021 | Oct 4, 2021 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade hiredis | Nov 4, 2022 | Apr 29, 2022 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade dev-libs/hiredis.Upgrade dev-python/hiredis. | Oct 31, 2022 | Oct 4, 2021 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade hiredisUpgrade libhiredis0_13Upgrade hiredis-devel | Dec 7, 2021 | Oct 4, 2021 |
| Ubuntu | — | No solution exists | Jun 26, 2025 | Oct 4, 2021 |
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