Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0159 (socat)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0159: Updated socat package fixes
 security vulnerability 
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Thu, 6 Jun 2013 21:23:53 +0200
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MGASA-2013-0159 - Updated socat package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 2, 3
CVE: CVE-2013-3571

Description:
Under certain circumstances an FD leak occurs and can be misused for denial of
service attacks against socat running in server mode (CVE-2013-3571).

References:
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3571

- http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv4.h...

SRPMS:
- 3/core/socat-2.0.0-0.b6.1.mga3.src.rpm
- 2/core/socat-1.7.2.2-1.mga2