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Fedora 41: socat Critical Remote Access Issue Advisories 2025-4f0d6d3522

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Calendar Grey August 22, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A new socat update rectifies a significant remote access vulnerability in Fedora 41, tackling major concerns and boosting overall security measures.
Update to 1.8.0.3 (rhbz#2307725) Resolves: CVE-2024-54661 (rhbz#2330520) Resolves: non-working ipv6-join-group option (rhbz#2352860) Resolves: FTBFS in Fedora (rhbz#2385633)

Summary

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.

Update Information:

Update to 1.8.0.3 (rhbz#2307725) Resolves: CVE-2024-54661 (rhbz#2330520) Resolves: non-working ipv6-join-group option (rhbz#2352860) Resolves: FTBFS in Fedora (rhbz#2385633)

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Change Log

* Wed Aug 6 2025 Martin Osvald - 1.8.0.3-1 - Update to 1.8.0.3 (rhbz#2307725) - Resolves: CVE-2024-54661 (rhbz#2330520) - Resolves: non-working ipv6-join-group option (rhbz#2352860) - Resolves: FTBFS in Fedora (rhbz#2385633) * Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.8.0.0-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Jan 19 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.8.0.0-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2307725 - socat-1.8.0.3 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2307725 [ 2 ] Bug #2330520 - CVE-2024-54661 socat: From CVEorg collector [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330520 [ 3 ] Bug #2352860 - socat 1.8.0.0 Fedora 41/42 ipv6-join-group does nothing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352860 [ 4 ] Bug #2385633 - socat: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f43 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2385633

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-4f0d6d3522' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: socat
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 1.8.0.3
Release: 1.fc41
URL: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
Summary: Bidirectional data relay between two data channels ('netcat++')

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