Security update for socat
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2016:0343-1 |
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| Rating: | moderate |
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An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.
Description:
This update for socat fixes the following issues:
- CVE-2013-3571: Fix a file descriptor leak that could have been misused for a denial of service attack against socat running in server mode (bsc#821985)
- CVE-2014-0019: PROXY-CONNECT address was vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow (bsc#860991)
- Fix a stack overflow in the parser that could have been leveraged to execute arbitrary code (bsc#964844)
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
zypper in -t patch sledsp4-socat-12384=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
zypper in -t patch slessp4-socat-12384=1 -
SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
zypper in -t patch slessp4-socat-12384=1
Package List:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 (x86_64 i586)
- socat-1.7.0.0-1.18.2
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
- socat-1.7.0.0-1.18.2
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SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
- socat-1.7.0.0-1.18.2