Debian Security Advisory

DLA-577-1 redis -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
30 Jul 2016
Affected Packages:
redis
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 832460.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-7458.
More information:

It was discovered that the redis-cli tool in redis (an in-memory key-value database) created world-readable history files.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, this issue has been fixed in redis version 2:2.4.14-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your redis packages.