Vigil@nce - socat: two vulnerabilities
April 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of socat.
Impacted products: openSUSE, openSUSE Leap.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 01/02/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in socat.
The prime modulus parameter previously generated by OpenSSL was
perhaps insecure, which may be used to decrypt a session.
[severity:1/4; CVE-2016-2217]
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow with long command line
arguments, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly
to run code. [severity:2/4]
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