CVE-2014-0019 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in socat 1.3.0.0 through 1.7.2.2 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a long server name in the PROXY-CONNECT address in the command line.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128190.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128229.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00043.html http://osvdb.org/102612 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/159 http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv5.txt http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:033 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65201