Hi,

On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 3:35 PM Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Peter, hi Lucas,
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 12:45:18PM +0200, Peter Wienemann wrote:
> > Hi Salvatore, hi Lucas,
> >
> > On 2026-03-21 18:26:15, Peter Wienemann wrote:
> > > Hi Lucas, hi Salvatore,
> > >
> > > On 2026-03-15 21:01:46, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > > The following vulnerabilities were published for valkey.
> > > >
> > > > CVE-2025-67733[0]:
> > > > | Valkey is a distributed key-value database. Prior to versions
> 9.0.2,
> > > > | 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12, a malicious user can use scripting
> > > > | commands to inject arbitrary information into the response stream
> > > > | for the given client, potentially corrupting or returning tampered
> > > > | data to other users on the same connection. The error handling code
> > > > | for lua scripts does not properly handle null characters. Versions
> > > > | 9.0.2, 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12 fix the issue.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > CVE-2026-21863[1]:
> > > > | Valkey is a distributed key-value database. Prior to versions
> 9.0.2,
> > > > | 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12, a malicious actor with access to the
> > > > | Valkey clusterbus port can send an invalid packet that may cause an
> > > > | out bound read, which might result in the system crashing. The
> > > > | Valkey clusterbus packet processing code does not validate that a
> > > > | clusterbus ping extension packet is located within buffer of the
> > > > | clusterbus packet before attempting to read it. Versions 9.0.2,
> > > > | 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12 fix the issue. As an additional
> mitigation,
> > > > | don't expose the cluster bus connection directly to end users, and
> > > > | protect the connection with its own network ACLs.
> > >
> > > what are your plans concerning the above vulnerabilities?
> > >
> > > If you need a helping hand, I can prepare a debdiff for trixie.
> >
> > I went ahead and prepared a debdiff assuming you have a fix via
> > trixie-security in mind. Just let me know if you prefer to go via
> trixie-pu.
> >
> > Lucas, feel free to intervene if you prefer to take care of it yourself.
> >
> > The upstream patch for CVE-2026-21863 had to be backported. The
> difference
> > between the backport and the upstream version is due to this change
> > introduced by version 8.1.2:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/commit/0a3186ae1e338701ae1201c8dc08e4a463a5b647
> >
> > So the difference is only in the neighbouring code.
> >
> > I checked that the CVE-2025-67733 exploit in [0] worked prior to the fix
> > and that it stopped working after applying the attached changes.
> >
> > Lucas, I prepared a debian/trixie branch which contains the
> > 8.1.1+dfsg1-3+deb13u1 changes introduced by Moritz some time ago and the
> > changes included in the attached debdiff. If you want me to push it to
> > salsa, just let me know.
>
> The CVE could be in scope for a DSA. Ideally we would want to not see
> an update missing in unstable, so we were basically waiting for Lucas
> to see if unstable gets fixed first (fwiw, I have filled now as well
> bugs for redis and redict, they should be affected equally, but
> correct me if you think I was wrong).
>
> I have added valkey to our dsa-needed list and we will come back to
> you after a review.


Sorry for the delay!

I was trying to move to version 9.x in Debian unstable to fix this issue
but I haven't had the time to properly finish the update and test
everything properly. Maybe I should just backport the patch to fix this
issue instead of waiting for 9.x.

Peter,

Thanks for the patch anyway, I will review it and try to use it also in
unstable to unblock this security update. Since you seem to care enough
about valkey, I am also welcoming co-maintainers to help with it :)

Cheers!
Lucas Kanashiro

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