redis vulnerabilities

16 July 2019

redis vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Redis.

Software Description

• redis - Persistent key-value database with network interface

Details

It was discovered that Redis incorrectly handled the hyperloglog data structure. An attacker could use this issue to cause Redis to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04

redis - 5:5.0.3-4ubuntu0.1

redis-tools - 5:5.0.3-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

redis - 5:4.0.9-1ubuntu0.2

redis-tools - 5:4.0.9-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

redis-tools - 2:3.0.6-1ubuntu0.4

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• CVE-2019-10192
• CVE-2019-10193