CVE-2021-32765
HIGHhiredis < 1.0.1 - Integer Overflow via Malicious RESP Multi-Bulk Protocol Data
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-32
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/redis/hiredis/commit/76a7b10005c70babee357a7d0f2becf28ec7ed1e
Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/redis/hiredis/security/advisories/GHSA-hfm9-39pp-55p2
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0003/
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0204
EPSS Percentile
78.6%
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