Redis Enterprise Software release notes 7.4.6-22 (July 2024)

Support for SHA-384 certificates in client authentication. New parameters for optimize_shard_placement and recover database REST API requests.

​​Redis Enterprise Software version 7.4.6 is now available! This release includes API enhancements that warranted a new minor version instead of a maintenance release for version 7.4.2. However, you can upgrade from 7.4.2 to 7.4.6 without issue.

Highlights

This version offers:

• Support for SHA-384 certificates in client authentication

• New parameters for optimize_shard_placement and recover database REST API requests

New in this release

Enhancements

• Added support for SHA-384 certificates when using mutual TLS for client authentication.

• Added an option to the optimize_shards_placement REST API request to consider replication when calculating the database’s optimized shard placement.

• Added shard_uid and shard_role for each persistence file in the response body of the recover REST API request. When the database has master_persistence enabled, these fields help identify the primary shard's persistence file, which is most up-to-date and recommended for recovery.

Redis module feature sets

Redis Enterprise comes packaged with several modules. As of version 7.4.2, Redis Enterprise includes two feature sets, compatible with different Redis database versions.

Bundled Redis modules compatible with Redis database version 7.2:

• RediSearch 2.8.13

• RedisJSON 2.6.10

• RedisTimeSeries 1.10.12

• RedisBloom 2.6.12

• RedisGears 2.0.20 preview: The RedisGears preview will not be promoted to GA and will be removed in a future release.

Bundled Redis modules compatible with Redis database versions 6.0 and 6.2:

• RediSearch 2.6.18

• RedisJSON 2.4.9

• RedisTimeSeries 1.8.13

• RedisBloom 2.4.9

• RedisGraph v2.10.15: RedisGraph end-of-life has been announced and will be removed in a future release. See the RedisGraph end-of-life announcement for more details.

Resolved issues

• RS118231: Fixed an issue where configuration changes to slave_buffer failed due to shard connection issues but incorrectly reported success.

• RS117757: Increased the number of connections reserved for admin clients to 64 to prevent connection limit issues.

• RS129900: Fixed an issue that prevented creating a database with modules that were uploaded during a cluster upgrade.

• RS128254: Fixed a TLS protocol version compatibility issue with cluster upgrades by setting new nodes to TLS protocol version 1.2 if the cluster's current TLS protocol version is no longer supported.

• RS125593: Added validation to verify the LDAP server URI contains a host and port when updating LDAP configuration.

Version changes

• Added validation to verify the LDAP server URI contains a host and port when updating LDAP configuration.

Product lifecycle updates

End-of-life policy extension

The end-of-life policy for Redis Enterprise Software versions 6.2 and later has been extended to 24 months after the formal release of the subsequent major version. For the updated end-of-life schedule, see the Redis Enterprise Software product lifecycle.

Supported upgrade paths

Redis Enterprise Software versions 6.2.4 and 6.2.8 do not support direct upgrades beyond version 7.4.x. Versions 6.2.10, 6.2.12, and 6.2.18 are part of the upgrade path. To upgrade from 6.2.4 or 6.2.8 to versions later than 7.4.x, an intermediate upgrade is required.

The next major Redis Enterprise Software release will still bundle Redis database version 6.2 and allow database upgrades from Redis database version 6.2 to 7.x.

See the Redis Enterprise Software product lifecycle for more information about release numbers.

Deprecations

Legacy UI deprecation

The legacy UI is deprecated in favor of the new Cluster Manager UI and will be removed in a future release.

Redis 6.0 database deprecation

Redis database version 6.0 is deprecated as of Redis Enterprise Software version 7.4.2 and will be removed in a future release.

To prepare for the future removal of Redis 6.0:

• For Redis Enterprise 6.2.* clusters, upgrade Redis 6.0 databases to Redis 6.2. See the Redis 6.2 release notes for the list of changes.

• For Redis Enterprise 7.2.4 and 7.4.2 clusters, upgrade Redis 6.0 databases to Redis 7.2. Before you upgrade your databases, see the list of Redis 7.2 breaking changes and update any applications that connect to your database to handle these changes.

Upcoming changes

Default image change for Redis Enterprise Software containers

Starting with version 7.6, Redis Enterprise Software containers with the image tag x.y.z-build will be based on RHEL instead of Ubuntu.

This change will only affect you if you use containers outside the official Redis Enterprise for Kubernetes product and use Ubuntu-specific commands.

To use Ubuntu-based images after this change, you can specify the operating system suffix in the image tag. For example, use the image tag 7.4.2-216.focal instead of 7.4.2-216.

Supported platforms

The following table provides a snapshot of supported platforms as of this Redis Enterprise Software release. See the supported platforms reference for more details about operating system compatibility.

✅ Supported – The platform is supported for this version of Redis Enterprise Software and Redis Stack modules.

⚠️ Deprecation warning – The platform is still supported for this version of Redis Enterprise Software, but support will be removed in a future release.

1. The RHEL-compatible distributions CentOS, CentOS Stream, Alma, and Rocky are supported if they have full RHEL compatibility. Oracle Linux running the Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) is supported, but the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) is not supported.

2. The server version of Ubuntu is recommended for production installations. The desktop version is only recommended for development deployments.

3. See the Redis Enterprise for Kubernetes documentation for details about support per version and Kubernetes distribution.

4. Docker images of Redis Enterprise Software are certified for development and testing only.

Downloads

The following table shows the SHA256 checksums for the available packages:

Known issues

• RS61676: Full chain certificate update fails if any certificate in the chain does not have a Common Name (CN).

• RS119958: The debuginfo script fails with the error /bin/tar: Argument list too long if there are too many RocksDB log files. This issue only affects clusters with Auto Tiering.

Known limitations

New Cluster Manager UI limitations

The following legacy UI features are not yet available in the new Cluster Manager UI:

• Remove a node.

  Use the REST API or legacy UI instead. See Remove a cluster node for instructions.

• Purge an Active-Active instance.

  Use crdb-cli crdb purge-instance instead.

• Search and export the log.

OpenSSL compatibility issue for 7.4.2 modules on Amazon Linux 2

Due to an OpenSSL 1.1 compatibility issue between modules and clusters, Redis Enterprise Software version 7.4.2-54 is not fully supported on Amazon Linux 2 clusters with databases that use the following modules: RedisGears, RediSearch, or RedisTimeSeries.

This issue will be fixed in a future maintenance release.

RedisGraph prevents upgrade to RHEL 9

You cannot upgrade from a prior RHEL version to RHEL 9 if the Redis Enterprise cluster contains a RedisGraph module, even if unused by any database. The RedisGraph module has reached End-of-Life and is completely unavailable in RHEL 9.

Security

Open source Redis security fixes compatibility

As part of Redis's commitment to security, Redis Enterprise Software implements the latest security fixes available with open source Redis. Redis Enterprise has already included the fixes for the relevant CVEs.

Some CVEs announced for open source Redis do not affect Redis Enterprise due to different or additional functionality available in Redis Enterprise that is not available in open source Redis.

Redis Enterprise 7.4.6-22 supports open source Redis 7.2, 6.2, and 6.0. Below is the list of open source Redis CVEs fixed by version.

Redis 7.2.x:

• (CVE-2023-41056) In some cases, Redis may incorrectly handle resizing of memory buffers, which can result in incorrect accounting of buffer sizes and lead to heap overflow and potential remote code execution.

• (CVE-2023-41053) Redis does not correctly identify keys accessed by SORT_RO and, as a result, may grant users executing this command access to keys that are not explicitly authorized by the ACL configuration. (Redis 7.2.1)

Redis 7.0.x:

• (CVE-2023-41056) In some cases, Redis may incorrectly handle resizing of memory buffers, which can result in incorrect accounting of buffer sizes and lead to heap overflow and potential remote code execution.

• (CVE-2023-41053) Redis does not correctly identify keys accessed by SORT_RO and, as a result, may grant users executing this command access to keys that are not explicitly authorized by the ACL configuration. (Redis 7.0.13)

• (CVE-2023-36824) Extracting key names from a command and a list of arguments may, in some cases, trigger a heap overflow and result in reading random heap memory, heap corruption, and potentially remote code execution. Specifically: using COMMAND GETKEYS* and validation of key names in ACL rules. (Redis 7.0.12)

• (CVE-2023-28856) Authenticated users can use the HINCRBYFLOAT command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access. (Redis 7.0.11)

• (CVE-2023-28425) Specially crafted MSETNX commands can lead to assertion and denial-of-service. (Redis 7.0.10)

• (CVE-2023-25155) Specially crafted SRANDMEMBER, ZRANDMEMBER, and HRANDFIELD commands can trigger an integer overflow, resulting in a runtime assertion and termination of the Redis server process. (Redis 7.0.9)

• (CVE-2023-22458) Integer overflow in the Redis HRANDFIELD and ZRANDMEMBER commands can lead to denial-of-service. (Redis 7.0.8)

• (CVE-2022-36021) String matching commands (like SCAN or KEYS) with a specially crafted pattern to trigger a denial-of-service attack on Redis can cause it to hang and consume 100% CPU time. (Redis 7.0.9)

• (CVE-2022-35977) Integer overflow in the Redis SETRANGE and SORT/SORT_RO commands can drive Redis to OOM panic. (Redis 7.0.8)

• (CVE-2022-35951) Executing an XAUTOCLAIM command on a stream key in a specific state, with a specially crafted COUNT argument, may cause an integer overflow, a subsequent heap overflow, and potentially lead to remote code execution. The problem affects Redis versions 7.0.0 or newer. (Redis 7.0.5)

• (CVE-2022-31144) A specially crafted XAUTOCLAIM command on a stream key in a specific state may result in heap overflow and potentially remote code execution. The problem affects Redis versions 7.0.0 or newer. (Redis 7.0.4)

• (CVE-2022-24834) A specially crafted Lua script executing in Redis can trigger a heap overflow in the cjson and cmsgpack libraries, and result in heap corruption and potentially remote code execution. The problem exists in all versions of Redis with Lua scripting support, starting from 2.6, and affects only authenticated and authorized users. (Redis 7.0.12)

• (CVE-2022-24736) An attacker attempting to load a specially crafted Lua script can cause NULL pointer dereference which will result in a crash of the redis-server process. This issue affects all versions of Redis. (Redis 7.0.0)

• (CVE-2022-24735) By exploiting weaknesses in the Lua script execution environment, an attacker with access to Redis can inject Lua code that will execute with the (potentially higher) privileges of another Redis user. (Redis 7.0.0)

Redis 6.2.x:

• (CVE-2023-28856) Authenticated users can use the HINCRBYFLOAT command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access. (Redis 6.2.12)

• (CVE-2023-25155) Specially crafted SRANDMEMBER, ZRANDMEMBER, and HRANDFIELD commands can trigger an integer overflow, resulting in a runtime assertion and termination of the Redis server process. (Redis 6.2.11)

• (CVE-2023-22458) Integer overflow in the Redis HRANDFIELD and ZRANDMEMBER commands can lead to denial-of-service. (Redis 6.2.9)

• (CVE-2022-36021) String matching commands (like SCAN or KEYS) with a specially crafted pattern to trigger a denial-of-service attack on Redis can cause it to hang and consume 100% CPU time. (Redis 6.2.11)

• (CVE-2022-35977) Integer overflow in the Redis SETRANGE and SORT/SORT_RO commands can drive Redis to OOM panic. (Redis 6.2.9)

• (CVE-2022-24834) A specially crafted Lua script executing in Redis can trigger a heap overflow in the cjson and cmsgpack libraries, and result in heap corruption and potentially remote code execution. The problem exists in all versions of Redis with Lua scripting support, starting from 2.6, and affects only authenticated and authorized users. (Redis 6.2.13)

• (CVE-2022-24736) An attacker attempting to load a specially crafted Lua script can cause NULL pointer dereference which will result in a crash of the redis-server process. This issue affects all versions of Redis. (Redis 6.2.7)

• (CVE-2022-24735) By exploiting weaknesses in the Lua script execution environment, an attacker with access to Redis can inject Lua code that will execute with the (potentially higher) privileges of another Redis user. (Redis 6.2.7)

• (CVE-2021-41099) Integer to heap buffer overflow handling certain string commands and network payloads, when proto-max-bulk-len is manually configured to a non-default, very large value. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32762) Integer to heap buffer overflow issue in redis-cli and redis-sentinel parsing large multi-bulk replies on some older and less common platforms. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32761) An integer overflow bug in Redis version 2.2 or newer can be exploited using the BITFIELD command to corrupt the heap and potentially result with remote code execution. (Redis 6.2.5)

• (CVE-2021-32687) Integer to heap buffer overflow with intsets, when set-max-intset-entries is manually configured to a non-default, very large value. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32675) Denial Of Service when processing RESP request payloads with a large number of elements on many connections. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32672) Random heap reading issue with Lua Debugger. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32628) Integer to heap buffer overflow handling ziplist-encoded data types, when configuring a large, non-default value for hash-max-ziplist-entries, hash-max-ziplist-value, zset-max-ziplist-entries or zset-max-ziplist-value. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32627) Integer to heap buffer overflow issue with streams, when configuring a non-default, large value for proto-max-bulk-len and client-query-buffer-limit. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32626) Specially crafted Lua scripts may result with Heap buffer overflow. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32625) An integer overflow bug in Redis version 6.0 or newer can be exploited using the STRALGO LCS command to corrupt the heap and potentially result with remote code execution. This is a result of an incomplete fix by CVE-2021-29477. (Redis 6.2.4)

• (CVE-2021-29478) An integer overflow bug in Redis 6.2 could be exploited to corrupt the heap and potentially result with remote code execution. The vulnerability involves changing the default set-max-intset-entries configuration value, creating a large set key that consists of integer values and using the COPY command to duplicate it. The integer overflow bug exists in all versions of Redis starting with 2.6, where it could result with a corrupted RDB or DUMP payload, but not exploited through COPY (which did not exist before 6.2). (Redis 6.2.3)

• (CVE-2021-29477) An integer overflow bug in Redis version 6.0 or newer could be exploited using the STRALGO LCS command to corrupt the heap and potentially result in remote code execution. The integer overflow bug exists in all versions of Redis starting with 6.0. (Redis 6.2.3)

Redis 6.0.x:

• (CVE-2022-24834) A specially crafted Lua script executing in Redis can trigger a heap overflow in the cjson and cmsgpack libraries, and result in heap corruption and potentially remote code execution. The problem exists in all versions of Redis with Lua scripting support, starting from 2.6, and affects only authenticated and authorized users. (Redis 6.0.20)

• (CVE-2023-28856) Authenticated users can use the HINCRBYFLOAT command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access. (Redis 6.0.19)

• (CVE-2023-25155) Specially crafted SRANDMEMBER, ZRANDMEMBER, and HRANDFIELD commands can trigger an integer overflow, resulting in a runtime assertion and termination of the Redis server process. (Redis 6.0.18)

• (CVE-2022-36021) String matching commands (like SCAN or KEYS) with a specially crafted pattern to trigger a denial-of-service attack on Redis can cause it to hang and consume 100% CPU time. (Redis 6.0.18)

• (CVE-2022-35977) Integer overflow in the Redis SETRANGE and SORT/SORT_RO commands can drive Redis to OOM panic. (Redis 6.0.17)