SUSE-SU-2016:0343-1

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    SUSE-SU-2016:0343-1

    Published: 5 Feb 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for socat

    Details: 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)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20160343-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/821985, https://bugzilla.suse.com/860991, https://bugzilla.suse.com/964844, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3571, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0019

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: socat

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/socat&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2011%20SP4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7.0.0-1.18.2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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