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CVE-2021-3470

redis: potential heap overflow when using a heap allocator other than jemalloc or glibc's malloc

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 26, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A heap overflow issue was found in Redis when using a heap allocator other than jemalloc or glibc's malloc, leading to potential out of bound write or process crash. Effectively this flaw does not affect the vast majority of users, who use jemalloc or glibc.

Statement

The following products are not affected by this flaw because they use jemalloc as default heap allocator:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Software Collections
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

In Red Hat OpenStack Platform, because the flaw has a lower impact and the fix would require a substantial amount of development, no update will be provided at this time for the RHOSP redis package.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer