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Fedora 40 : redis (2025-290b0c6e2b)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235108

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-2025-290b0c6e2b advisory.

 **Redis 7.2.8** Released Wed 23 Apr 2025 12:00:00 IST

 Update urgency: `SECURITY`: There are security fixes in the release.

 Security fixes

 * (**CVE-2025-21605**) An unauthenticated client can cause an unlimited growth of output buffers

 Bug fixes

 * Fix race condition issues between the main thread and module threads
 * `RANDOMKEY` - infinite loop during client pause
 * ShardID inconsistency when both primary and replica support it

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 redis package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-290b0c6e2b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235108

File Name: fedora_2025-290b0c6e2b.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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:redis, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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