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