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socat -- format string vulnerability

Description:

Socat Security Advisory 1 states:

socat up to version 1.4.0.2 contains a syslog() based format string vulnerability. This issue was originally reported by CoKi on 19 Oct.2004 http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-07.txt. Further investigation showed that this vulnerability could under some circumstances lead to local or remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the socat process.

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portaudit: socat -- format string vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>