Bug 1796474 (CVE-2020-7105)

Summary: CVE-2020-7105 hiredis: NULL pointer dereference in async.c and dict.c in libhiredis.a
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-01-30 14:21:37 UTC
async.c and dict.c in libhiredis.a in hiredis through 0.14.0 allow a NULL pointer dereference because malloc return values are unchecked.

Reference:
https://github.com/redis/hiredis/issues/747

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-01-30 14:21:57 UTC
Created hiredis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1796476]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1796475]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-01-30 20:09:36 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.