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amazonAmazonALAS-2012-087
HistoryJun 11, 2012 - 10:28 a.m.

Medium: socat

2012-06-1110:28:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
5

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

Issue Overview:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xioscan_readline function in xio-readline.c in socat 1.4.0.0 through 1.7.2.0 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via the READLINE address.

Affected Packages:

socat

Issue Correction:
Run yum update socat to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.1-1.6.amzn1.i686  
    socat-1.7.2.1-1.6.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    socat-1.7.2.1-1.6.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    socat-1.7.2.1-1.6.amzn1.x86_64  
    socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.1-1.6.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-0219

Mitre: CVE-2012-0219