vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-28856

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 18, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. Authenticated users can use the `HINCRBYFLOAT` command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access in affected versions. This issue has been addressed in in versions 7.0.11, 6.2.12, and 6.0.19. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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