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Fedora 40 : valkey (2025-59ebc165fc)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235106

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-59ebc165fc advisory.

 **Valkey 8.0.3** - Released Wed 23 Apr 2025

 Upgrade urgency SECURITY: This release includes security fixes we recommend you apply as soon as possible.

 Bug fixes

 * Optimize RDB load performance and fix cluster mode resizing on replica side (#1199)
 * Fix memory leak in forgotten node ping ext code path (#1574)
 * Fix cluster info sent stats for message with light header (#1563)
 * Fix module LatencyAddSample still work when latency-monitor-threshold is 0 (#1541)
 * Fix potential crash in radix tree recompression of huge keys (#1722)
 * Fix error SSL routines::bad length when connTLSWrite is called second time with smaller buffer (#1737)
 * Fix temp file leak druing replication error handling (#1721)
 * Fix ACL LOAD crash on replica since the primary client don't has a user (#1842)
 * Fix RANDOMKEY infinite loop during CLIENT PAUSE (#1850)
 * fix: add samples to stream object consumer trees (#1825)
 * Fix cluster slot stats assertion during promotion of replica (#1950)
 * Fix panic in primary when blocking shutdown after previous block with timeout (#1948)
 * Ignore stale gossip packets that arrive out of order (#1777)
 * Fix incorrect lag reported in XINFO GROUPS (#1952)
 * Avoid shard id update of replica if not matching with primary shard id (#573)

 Security fixes

 * **CVE-2025-21605** Limit output buffer for unauthenticated clients (#1993)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected valkey package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-59ebc165fc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235106

File Name: fedora_2025-59ebc165fc.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/3/2025

Updated: 5/3/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21605

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:valkey

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-21605