[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: socat-1.7.1.3-1.fc12
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-13403
2010-08-24 20:35:56
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Name : socat
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 1.7.1.3
Release : 1.fc12
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:
This resolves CVE-2010-2799 Socat: Stack overflow by lexical scanning of nested
character patterns
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Aug 23 2010 Paul Wouters <paul(a)xelerance.com> - 1.7.1.3-1
- Upgrade to 1.7.1.3
- Includes fix for CVE-2010-2799 Stack overflow by lexical scanning of nested
character patterns
- Resolves https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620430
* Sat Jan 30 2010 Paul Wouters <paul(a)xelerance.com> - 1.7.1.2-1
- Upgraded to 1.7.1.2
- Link against compat-readline5 for GPLv2 license (Miroslav Lichvar)
(bz #511310)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #620426 - CVE-2010-2799 Socat: Stack overflow by lexical scanning of nested
character patterns
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620426
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project 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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