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Debian DLA-3396-1 : redis - LTS security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174704

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3396 advisory.

 - Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. Authenticated users can use the `HINCRBYFLOAT` command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access in affected versions. This issue has been addressed in in versions 7.0.11, 6.2.12, and 6.0.19. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue. (CVE-2023-28856)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the redis packages.

For Debian 10 Buster, this problem has been fixed in version 5

See Also

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3396

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-28856

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/redis

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174704

File Name: debian_DLA-3396.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2023

Updated: 4/28/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28856

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:redis, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:redis-sentinel, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:redis-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:redis-tools, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28856