openSUSE Security Update: Security update for socat ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0760-1 Rating: moderate References: #860991 #927161 Cross-References: CVE-2014-0019 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available. Description: socat was updated 1.7.2.4 to fix one security issue and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: * socats PROXY-CONNECT address was vulnerable to a buffer overflow with data from command line (CVE-2014-0019, boo#860991) The following bugs were fixed: * socat would frequently crash on ppc and armv7l (boo#927161) * various other bug fixes in 1.7.2.4 Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-324=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64): socat-1.7.2.4-2.3.1 socat-debuginfo-1.7.2.4-2.3.1 socat-debugsource-1.7.2.4-2.3.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0019.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/860991 https://bugzilla.suse.com/927161