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CVE-2021-29477: Vulnerability in the STRALGO LCS command

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-05-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. An integer overflow bug in Redis version 6.0 or newer could be exploited using the `STRALGO LCS` command to corrupt the heap and potentially result with remote code execution. The problem is fixed in version 6.2.3 and 6.0.13. An additional workaround to mitigate the problem without patching the redis-server executable is to use ACL configuration to prevent clients from using the `STRALGO LCS` command.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33, 34
• Redis Labs Redis: from 6.0.0 before 6.0.13; from 6.2.0 before 6.2.3 — fixed in 6.0.13, 6.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Redis Labs Redis 6.0.13, 6.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-vqxj-26vj-996g
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BHWOF7CBVUGDK3AN6H3BN3VNTH2TDUZZ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BPWBIZXA67JFIB63W2CNVVILCGIC2ME5/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZJ6JGQ2ETZB2DWTQSGCOGG7EF3ILV4V/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SN7INTZFE34MIQJO7WDDTIY5LIBGN6GI/
• https://redis.io/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-20
• https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-vqxj-26vj-996g
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BHWOF7CBVUGDK3AN6H3BN3VNTH2TDUZZ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BPWBIZXA67JFIB63W2CNVVILCGIC2ME5/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZJ6JGQ2ETZB2DWTQSGCOGG7EF3ILV4V/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SN7INTZFE34MIQJO7WDDTIY5LIBGN6GI/

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