Advisories » MGASA-2014-0070

Updated socat package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 16 Feb 2014
Modification date: 16 Feb 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-0019

Description

Due to a missing check in socat before 2.0.0-b7 during assembly of the HTTP
request line, a long target server name (<hostname> in the documentation) in
the PROXY-CONNECT address can cause a stack buffer overrun.  Exploitation
requires that the attacker is able to provide the target server name to the
PROXY-CONNECT address in the command line. This can happen, for example, in
scripts that receive data from untrusted sources (CVE-2014-0019).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12469
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/7
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0019

SRPMS

3/core

• socat-2.0.0-0.b7.1.mga3

4/core

• socat-2.0.0-0.b7.1.mga4