CVE-2012-0219 (GCVE-0-2012-0219)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-21 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://www.lwn.net/Articles/504742/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53510 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
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| http://www.osvdb.org/81969 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/49105 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/14/2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
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"vulnStatus": "Modified",
"weaknesses": [
{
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "CWE-119"
}
],
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
},
"redhat_vex": {
"current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:52:32+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2012-0219",
"id": "CVE-2012-0219",
"initial_release_date": "2012-05-14T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "socat: heap-based buffer overflow flaw leads to arbitrary code execution",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2012/cve-2012-0219.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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