vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-32765): hiredis vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Oct 4, 2021 | Jun 26, 2025 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Description
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.
Solution
References
- CVE-2021-32765
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-32765
- CWE-190
- CWE-680
- URL-https://github.com/redis/hiredis/security/advisories/GHSA-hfm9-39pp-55p2
- URL-https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/MEM07-C.+Ensure+that+the+arguments+to+calloc%28%29%2C+when+multiplied%2C+do+not+wrap
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32765
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