Stack-based buffer overflow in Fedoraproject products - CVE-2014-0019
Published: February 4, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42076
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0019
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing a long server name in the PROXY-CONNECT address in the command line. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trigger stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
socat
Opensuse
Fedora
Amazon Linux AMI
socat
Opensuse
Fedora
Amazon Linux AMI
socat
How to mitigate CVE-2014-0019
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
socat - update to 1.7.2.3-1.el6
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128190.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128229.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00043.html
- http://osvdb.org/102612
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/159
- http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat
- http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv5.txt
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:033
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65201