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socat: denial of service

Package(s):socat CVE #(s):CVE-2013-3571
Created:May 29, 2013 Updated:June 11, 2013
Description: From the Mandriva advisory:

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

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:169 2013-05-29
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:170 2013-05-29
Mageia MGASA-2013-0159 2013-06-06
Fedora FEDORA-2013-9504 2013-06-11
Fedora FEDORA-2013-9505 2013-06-11
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