[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: socat-1.7.2.2-1.el6

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-5995
2013-05-28 18:48:52
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Name        : socat
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 1.7.2.2
Release     : 1.el6
URL         : http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat
Summary     : Bidirectional data relay between two data channels ('netcat++')
Description :
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.
The compat-readline5 library is used to avoid GPLv2 vs GPLv3 issues.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2013-3571: Denial of service due to file descriptor leak
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #967345 - CVE-2013-3571 socat: Denial of service due to file descriptor leak
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967345
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update socat' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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