6.2 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
Heap-based buffer overflow in the xioscan_readline function in
xio-readline.c in socat 1.4.0.0 through 1.7.2.0 and 2.0.0-b1 through
2.0.0-b4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via the READLINE
address.
Author | Note |
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sbeattie | per debian bug report, readline support is disabled (done in 1.7.1.3-1.3) avoiding the issue |