Buffer overflow in Dest-Unreach Socat
CVE-2014-0019
Stack-based buffer overflow in socat 1.3.0.0 through 1.7.2.2 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a long server name in the PROXY-CONNECT address in the command line.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 1.9 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (32.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Dest-Unreach Socat — versions 2.0.0, 1.3.0.0, 1.3.0.1
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 19, 20
- openSUSE — versions 13.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128229.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/65201 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/102612 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/159 (mailing-list, Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- www.dest-unreach.org/socat (Patch)
- www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv5.txt (Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00043.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128190.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)