[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: socat-1.7.2.3-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-1811
2014-01-30 02:47:37
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Name        : socat
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.7.2.3
Release     : 1.fc20
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.

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Update Information:

Security update for CVE-2014-0019, which fixes a denial of service flaw in socat when using PROXY-CONNECT 
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 29 2014 Paul Wouters <pwouters at redhat.com> - 1.7.2.3-1
- Updated to 1.7.2.3 for CVE-2014-0019
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1057746 - CVE-2014-0019 socat: PROXY-CONNECT address overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057746
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  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/.

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