Fedora 22: redis Security Update
Summary
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.
You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string;
incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing set
intersection, union and difference; or getting the member with highest
ranking in a sorted set.
In order to achieve its outstanding performance, Redis works with an
in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, you can persist it either
by dumping the dataset to disk every once in a while, or by appending
each command to a log.
Redis also supports trivial-to-setup master-slave replication, with very
fast non-blocking first synchronization, auto-reconnection on net split
and so forth.
Other features include Transactions, Pub/Sub, Lua scripting, Keys with a
limited time-to-live, and configuration settings to make Redis behave like
a cache.
You can use Redis from most programming languages also.
Update Information:
- Upstream 2.8.21 - Fix Lua sandbox escape and arbitrary code execution (RHBZ #1228331)
Change Log
* Thu Jun 4 2015 Haïkel Guémar
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1228327 - CVE-2015-4335 redis: Lua sandbox escape and arbitrary code execution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228327
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update redis' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
