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Socat security advisory 8

Overview

A stack overflow vulnerability was found that can be triggered when command line arguments (complete address specifications, host names, file names) are longer than 512 bytes.

Successful exploitation might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the socat process.

This vulnerability can only be exploited when an attacker is able to inject data into socat's command line.

A vulnerable scenario would be a CGI script that reads data from clients and uses (parts of) this data as hostname for a Socat invocation.

Vulnerability Ids

Socat security issue 8

Severity: Low

Affected versions

1.5.0.0 - 1.7.3.0

2.0.0-b1 - 2.0.0-b8

Not affected or corrected versions

1.0.0.0 - 1.4.3.1

1.7.3.1 and later

2.0.0-b9 and later

Workaround

Do not pass unfiltered data from untrusted sources to socat's command line

Download

The updated sources can be downloaded from:

• http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.3.1.tar.gz
• http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-2.0.0-b9.tar gz

Patch to 1.7.3.0:

Patch to 2.0.0-b8:

Credits

Credits to Takume Akiyma for finding and reporting this issue.