Subject: [SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: socat-1.7.1.3-1.fc13
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.package.announce
Date: 2010-09-01 03:30:46 GMT (1 year, 37 weeks, 5 days, 2 hours and 37 minutes ago)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-13412 2010-08-24 20:36:23 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : socat Product : Fedora 13 Version : 1.7.1.3 Release : 1.fc13 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This resolves CVE-2010-2799 Socat: Stack overflow by lexical scanning of nested character patterns -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Aug 23 2010 Paul Wouters <paul <at> 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------