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Ubuntu Security NoticesUSN-9070-1

USN-9070-1: Hiredis vulnerability

Severity not listed 0 CVEs Published Nov 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM UTC

Summary

It was discovered that Hiredis did not check the return values of memory allocation functions in some places, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using Hiredis to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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