UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10517

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10517

    Published: 24 Oct 2017Last Modified: 8 Sept 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-10517

    Summary:

    Details: networking.c in Redis before 3.2.7 allows "Cross Protocol Scripting" because it lacks a check for POST and Host: strings, which are not valid in the Redis protocol (but commonly occur when an attack triggers an HTTP request to the Redis TCP port).

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10517, https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/874804da0c014a7d704b3d285aa500098a931f50, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/3.2/00-RELEASENOTES, https://www.reddit.com/r/redis/comments/5r8wxn/redis_327_is_out_important_security_fixes_inside/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10517

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: redis

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/redis@2:2.8.4-2ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:2.8.4-2ubuntu0.2

    Affected versions

    2:2.6.13-1
    2:2.6.16-3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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