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Fedora 20 : socat-1.7.2.3-1.fc20 (2014-1811)

low Nessus Plugin ID 72463

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security update for CVE-2014-0019, which fixes a denial of service flaw in socat when using PROXY-CONNECT

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=1057746

http://www.nessus.org/u?d0c010d9

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 72463

File Name: fedora_2014-1811.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/13/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, 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: 1/30/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0019

BID: 65201

FEDORA: 2014-1811