Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-300
Advisory Release Date: 2014-03-06 14:57 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-16 22:36 Pacific
Severity:
Low
Issue Overview:
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.
Affected Packages:
socat
Issue Correction:
Run yum update socat to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.i686
socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.i686
src:
socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.src
x86_64:
socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.x86_64
socat-1.7.2.3-1.10.amzn1.x86_64