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High ALSA-2025:7429 1 CVE

Important: redis:7 security update

Published May 13, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

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. For performance, Redis works with an in-memory data set. You can persist it either by dumping the data set to disk every once in a while, or by appending each command to a log.

Security Fix(es):

* redis: Redis DoS Vulnerability due to unlimited growth of output buffers abused by unauthenticated client (CVE-2025-21605)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 redis 7.2.8-1.module_el9.6.0+168+b8d8e900
AlmaLinux · 9 redis-devel 7.2.8-1.module_el9.6.0+168+b8d8e900
AlmaLinux · 9 redis-doc 7.2.8-1.module_el9.6.0+168+b8d8e900

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    Redis DoS Vulnerability due to unlimited growth of output buffers abused by unauthenticated client

    Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. In versions starting at 2.6 and prior to 7.4.3, An unauthenticated client can cause unlimited growth of output buffers, until the server runs out of memory or is killed. By default, the Redis …

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21605
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2361883
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-7429.html