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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-5958
2012-05-24 14:18:39
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Name : socat
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 1.7.2.1
Release : 1.el5
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.
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Update Information:
Fix for CVE-2012-0219 heap-based buffer overflow
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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