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Gentoo Linux: GLSA-202310-18 Important: Socat Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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socat contains a format string vulnerability that can potentially lead to remote or local execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the socat process

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-26 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: socat: Format string vulnerability Date: October 25, 2004 Bugs: #68547 ID: 200410-26

Synopsis ======= socat contains a format string vulnerability that can potentially lead to remote or local execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the socat process.
Background ========= socat is a multipurpose bidirectional relay, similar to netcat.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/socat < 1.4.0.3 >= 1.4.0.3
========== socat contains a syslog() based format string vulnerablility in the '_msg()' function of 'error.c'. Exploitation of ...

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