Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-1379: socat DoS with fork
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
06/08/2017
07/25/2018
08/30/2017
10/30/2017
Description
The signal handler implementations in socat before 1.7.3.0 and 2.0.0-b8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process freeze or crash).
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-socat
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