CVE-2021-3470

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3470
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-31 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-04-05 18:37:00 UTC
DescriptionA heap overflow issue was found in Redis in versions before 5.0.10, before 6.0.9 and before 6.2.0 when using a heap allocator other than jemalloc or glibc's malloc, leading to potential out of bound write or process crash. Effectively this flaw does not affect the vast majority of users, who use jemalloc or glibc malloc.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redislabs Redis All All All All
Application Redislabs Redis 6.2.0 rc1 All All
Application Redislabs Redis 6.2.0 rc2 All All
Application Redislabs Redis 6.2.0 rc3 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1943623 – (CVE-2021-3470) CVE-2021-3470 redis: potential heap overflow when using a heap allocator other than jemalloc or glibc's malloc MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180007 Debian Security Update for redis (CVE-2021-3470)
  • 500599 Alpine Linux Security Update for redis
  • 501486 Alpine Linux Security Update for redis
  • 501774 Alpine Linux Security Update for redis
  • 504353 Alpine Linux Security Update for redis
  • 900251 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for redis 5.0.5
  • 901765 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for redis (6852-1)
  • 903620 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for redis (4039)
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