12936Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/12936 CVE-2004-1484
Socat 1.4.0.2 - Not SETUID Local Format String
Record summary
CVE-2004-1484 has a selected CVSS score of 5.0; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
Format string vulnerability in the _msg function in error.c in socat 1.4.0.3 and earlier, when used as an HTTP proxy client and run with the -ly option, allows remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a syslog message.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBSocat 1.4.0.2 - Not SETUID Local Format StringExploitDB exploitby CoKiNot analyzed1 file
References
7dest-unreach.orgConfirmation
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/advisory/socat-adv-1.html GLSA-200410-26Vendor advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-26.xml nosystem.com.ar
http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-07.txt 11505vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11505 socat-format-string(17822)vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17822 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1484