socat: Format string vulnerability

Background socat is a multipurpose bidirectional relay, similar to netcat. Description socat contains a syslog based format string vulnerablility in the 'msg' function of 'error.c'. Exploitation of this bug is only possible when socat is run with the '-ly' option, causing it to log messages to...

socat <= 1.4.0.2 Local Format String Exploit (not setuid)

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ========================================================= socat No System Group - http://www.nosystem.com.ar email protected:$ make socatexp email protected:$ ./socatexp socat shellcode address = 0xbfffffb9 .dtors address = 0x080740c4 2004/10/...