Low: socat

2014-03-0614:57:00

alas.aws.amazon.com

1.9 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

Issue Overview:

Stack-based buffer overflow in socat 1.3.0.0 through 1.7.2.2 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a long server name in the PROXY-CONNECT address in the command line.

Affected Packages:

socat

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

New Packages:

i686:  
    socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.i686  
    socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.x86_64  
    socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-0019

Mitre: CVE-2014-0019

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Amazon Linux1i686socat< 1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1i686socat-debuginfo< 1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64socat-debuginfo< 1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64socat< 1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.x86_64.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Amazon Linux	1	i686	socat	< 1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1	socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	i686	socat-debuginfo	< 1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1	socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	x86_64	socat-debuginfo	< 1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1	socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	x86_64	socat	< 1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1	socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.x86_64.rpm