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USN-5316-1: Redis vulnerability

8 March 2022

Redis could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic from an authenticated user.

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Releases

Packages

  • redis - Persistent key-value database with network interface

Details

Reginaldo Silva discovered that due to a packaging issue, a remote attacker
with the ability to execute arbitrary Lua scripts could possibly escape the
Lua sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the host.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References