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socat -- FD leak

Affected packages
socat < 1.7.2.2

Details

VuXML ID 6d87c2e9-c64d-11e2-9c22-50465d9ff992
Discovery 2013-05-26
Entry 2013-05-26

Gerhard Rieger reports:

Under certain circumstances an FD leak occurs and can be misused for denial of service attacks against socat running in server mode.

[source]

References

CVE Name CVE-2013-3571
URL http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/411

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