QID 671087

Date Published: 2021-11-29

QID 671087: EulerOS Security Update for socat (EulerOS-SA-2019-2663)

Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels.
Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc.
Or a pseudo terminal), a socket (unix, ip4, ip6 - raw, udp, tcp), an ssl socket, proxy connect connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.),
The gnu line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these.
Security fix(es): the signal handler implementations in socat before 1.7.3.0 and 2.0.0-b8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process freeze or crash).(cve-2015-1379)

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An arbitrary attacker may exploit this vulnerability to compromise the system.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.

Solution

The Vendor has released a security update to fix the vulnerability. For more information please visit EulerOS-SA-2019-2663 for updates and patch information

Vendor References

EulerOS-SA-2019-2663 - developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2663

CVEs related to QID 671087

CVE-2015-1379 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
EulerOS-SA-2019-2663	EulerOS V2.0SP3		developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2663

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