Bug 620426 (CVE-2010-2799)

Summary: CVE-2010-2799 Socat: Stack overflow by lexical scanning of nested character patterns
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: pwouters, vdanen
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-02 13:45:09 UTC 
Socat upstream, released an advisory:
  [1] http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv2.html

describing a stack overflow flaw, present in Socat bidirectional data
relay, when processing command line arguments (address specifications,
host names, file names), longer than 512 bytes. An attacker, able to
inject data into sockat's command line (potentially remotely via CGI
script invocation), could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the socat process.

References:
  [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330785

Upstream patch against v1.7.2:
  [3] http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.1.3.patch

Credit:
Issue discovered and reported by Felix Gröbert of Google Security Team

CVE Request:
  [4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/02/3
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-02 13:47:05 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the socat package, as shipped
with Fedora releases of 12 and 13.

Please fix.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-02 13:51:57 UTC 
Created socat tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 620430]
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-03 08:29:02 UTC 
The CVE identifier of CVE-2010-2799 has been assigned to this.
Comment 4 Paul Wouters 2010-08-23 23:48:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 620430 ***
Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2010-09-14 20:33:55 UTC 
This shouldn't been closed as a duplicate of the tracking bug.