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openSUSE Security Update : redis (openSUSE-2017-1258)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104521

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for redis to version 4.0.2 fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2016-8339: CONFIG SET client-output-buffer-limit Code Execution Vulnerability (boo#1002351)

The following upstream changes are included :

 - SLOWLOG now logs the offending client name and address

 - The modules native data types RDB format changed.

 - The AOF check utility is now able to deal with RDB preambles.

 - GEORADIUS_RO and GEORADIUSBYMEMBER_RO variants, not supporting the STORE option, were added in order to allow read-only scaling of such queries.

 - HSET is now variadic, and HMSET is considered deprecated

 - GEORADIUS huge radius (>= ~6000 km) corner cases fixed

 - HyperLogLog commands no longer crash on certain input (non HLL) strings.

 - Fixed SLAVEOF inside MULTI/EXEC blocks.

 - TCP binding bug fixed when only certain addresses were available for a given por

 - MIGRATE could crash the server after a socket error

Solution

Update the affected redis packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064980

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104521

File Name: openSUSE-2017-1258.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2017

Updated: 11/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8339

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:redis, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:redis-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:redis-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10517, CVE-2016-8339