Debian: DSA-2090-1 Critical Socat Remote Execution Threat

A stack overflow vulnerability was found in socat that allows 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 more than 512 bytes of data into socat's argument.

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

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.0.1-1+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.1.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your socat package.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated ...