RHSA-2015:1676

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2015-08-24 20:17 - Updated: 2025-11-21 17:53
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: redis security advisory

Notes

Topic
Updated redis packages that fix a security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.
Details
Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. A flaw was discovered in redis that could allow an authenticated user, who was able to use the EVAL command to run Lua code, to break out of the Lua sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the system. (CVE-2015-4335) All users of redis are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue.
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