CVE-2010-2799 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the nestlex function in nestlex.c in Socat 1.5.0.0 through 1.7.1.2 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b3 when bidirectional data relay is enabled allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via long command-line arguments.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591443 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330785 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2090 http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv2.html http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.1.3.patch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620426