Gentoo Linux: GLSA-202310-18 Important: Socat Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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October 25, 2004
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
Summary
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
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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.
Background
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socat is a multipurpose bidirectional relay, similar to netcat.
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1 net-misc/socat < 1.4.0.3 >= 1.4.0.3
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socat contains a syslog() based format string vulnerablility in the
'_msg()' function of 'error.c'. Exploitation of ...
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