RHSA-2015:1676 - Security Advisory

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.

Description

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.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 6.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1228327 - CVE-2015-4335 redis: Lua sandbox escape and arbitrary code execution

CVEs

• CVE-2015-4335

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate