CVE-2010-2799

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the nestlex function in nestlex.c in Socat 1.5.0.0 through 1.7.1.2 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b3, when bidirectional data relay is enabled, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via long command-line arguments.

Affected products

socat: 1.5.0.0, 1.6.0.0, 1.6.0.1, 1.7.0.0, 1.7.0.1, 1.7.1.0 (+4)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591443
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330785
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2090
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv2.html
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.1.3.patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620426
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591443
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330785
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2090
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv2.html
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.1.3.patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620426

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