socat security advisory

[Gerhard Rieger <gerhard () dest-unreach org>]

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Socat security advisory 3

Overview
  A heap based buffer overflow vulnerability has been found with data
  that happens to be output on the READLINE address. Successful
  exploitation may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with
  the privileges of the socat process.

Vulnerability Id: CVE-2012-0219

Details
  This vulnerability can be exploited when socat is invoked with the
  READLINE address (this is usually only used interactively) without
  option "prompt" and without option "noprompt" and an attacker
  succeeds to provide malicious data to the other (arbitrary) address
  that is then transferred by socat to the  READLINE address for
  output.
  The problem was caused by a coding error in function
  xioscan_readline().

Testcase
  To check your socat program do the following:

    perl -e 'print "\r"."A"x 513' >/tmp/socat-data
    socat readline exec:'cat /tmp/socat-data'

  When socat crashes with a signal (e.g. SIGSEGV) and does not output
  any 'A' it is vulnerable.

Workaround
  Use option "prompt" or option "noprompt" with the READLINE address.

Affected versions
  1.4.0.0 - 1.7.2.0
  2.0.0-b1 - 2.0.0-b4

Not affected or corrected versions
  1.0.0.0 - 1.3.2.2
  1.7.2.1 and later
  2.0.0-b5 and later

Download
  The updated sources can be downloaded from:
    http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.2.1.tar.gz
    http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-2.0.0-b5.tar.gz
  Patch to 1.7.2.0:
    http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.2.1.patch.gz
  Patch to 2.0.0-b4:
    http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-2.0.0-b5.patch.gz

History
  2012/04/22 vulnerability report received
  2012/04/22 fix to 1.7.2.0 generated
  2012/04/27 fix to 2.0.0-b4 generated
  2012/05/14 fixes published

Credits
  Full credits to Johan Thillemann for finding and reporting this issue.
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