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CVE-2014-0019

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-02-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in socat 1.3.0.0 through 1.7.2.2 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a long server name in the PROXY-CONNECT address in the command line.

Affected products

• socat: 2.0.0-b1, 2.0.0-b2, 2.0.0-b3, 2.0.0-b4, 2.0.0-b5, 2.0.0-b6 (+26)
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20
• Opensuse: 13.1

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128190.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128229.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00043.html
• http://osvdb.org/102612
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/159
• http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat
• http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv5.txt
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:033
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65201
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128190.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128229.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00043.html

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