Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-202
Advisory Release Date: 2013-06-20 14:13 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-15 23:12 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
socat 1.2.0.0 before 1.7.2.2 and 2.0.0-b1 before 2.0.0-b6, when used for a listen type address and the fork option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via multiple request that are refused based on the (1) sourceport, (2) lowport, (3) range, or (4) tcpwrap restrictions.
Affected Packages:
socat
Issue Correction:
Run yum update socat to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.2-1.8.amzn1.i686
socat-1.7.2.2-1.8.amzn1.i686
src:
socat-1.7.2.2-1.8.amzn1.src
x86_64:
socat-1.7.2.2-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.2-1.8.amzn1.x86_64