CVE-2021-32765

HIGH

Hiredis - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0051
EPSS Percentile 66.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190 CWE-680
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
netapp/management_services_for_element_software_and_netapp_hci
redis/hiredis < 1.0.1
Published Oct 04, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026