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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for socat (ALAS-2013-202) (CVE-2013-3571)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for socat (ALAS-2013-202) (CVE-2013-3571)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/28/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-socat
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-socat-debuginfo

References

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