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CVE-2021-32765
high
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.
References
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0003/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-32
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00007.html
https://github.com/redis/hiredis/security/advisories/GHSA-hfm9-39pp-55p2
https://github.com/redis/hiredis/commit/76a7b10005c70babee357a7d0f2becf28ec7ed1e