-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2014-0398 2014-01-29 19:38:16 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : socat Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 1.7.2.3 Release : 1.el6 URL : http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat Summary : Bidirectional data relay between two data channels ('netcat++') Description : Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these. The compat-readline5 library is used to avoid GPLv2 vs GPLv3 issues.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Security update for CVE-2014-0019, which fixes a denial of service flaw in socat when using PROXY-CONNECT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1057746 - CVE-2014-0019 socat: PROXY-CONNECT address overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057746 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update socat' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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