CVE-2012-0219

N/A Unknown

Published: June 21, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xioscan_readline function in xio-readline.c in socat 1.4.0.0 through 1.7.2.0 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via the READLINE address.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081619.html

Source: security@debian.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081882.html

Source: security@debian.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/49105

Source: security@debian.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/49746

Source: security@debian.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201208-01.xml

Source: security@debian.org

http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv3.html

Source: security@debian.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.lwn.net/Articles/504742/

Source: security@debian.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:169

Source: security@debian.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/14/2

Source: security@debian.org

http://www.osvdb.org/81969

Source: security@debian.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53510

Source: security@debian.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027064

Source: security@debian.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081619.html