Bug 1022048

Summary: socat: strncpy hardening
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: socatAssignee: Paul Wouters <pwouters>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 7.0CC: gerhard, jaster, omoris
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Last Closed: 2018-11-13 10:59:29 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Florian Weimer 2013-10-22 14:31:25 UTC 
xiosetenv() in sysutils.c misuses strncpy() because that function does not guarantuee NUL termination.  This also affects other uses of strncpy() in the code base, so a wrapper that mimics the strlcopy behavior would make sense, I think.
Comment 2 Gerhard 2014-03-10 21:06:58 UTC 
Has been fixed in upstream release 1.7.2.4
Comment 5 Paul Wouters 2018-11-13 10:59:29 UTC 
This bug is addressed by ERRATA RHBA-2017:2049-03 socat bug fix update

https://errata.devel.redhat.com/advisory/26967