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Fedora 13 : socat-1.7.1.3-1.fc13 (2010-13412)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 49060

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This resolves CVE-2010-2799 Socat: Stack overflow by lexical scanning of nested character patterns

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected socat package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620426

http://www.nessus.org/u?563e1bbb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 49060

File Name: fedora_2010-13412.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:socat

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2799

BID: 42112

FEDORA: 2010-13412