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OESA-2024-2580 (CVE-2024-54661)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2024-12-27 11:08 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:08 – Source website

Summary

socat security update

Details

Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these.

Security Fix(es):

readline.sh in socat through 1.8.0.1 relies on the /tmp/$USER/stderr2 file.(CVE-2024-54661)

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-54661	ADVISORY

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  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:08:03Z",
  "published": "2024-12-27T11:08:03Z",
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}

CVE-2024-54661 (GCVE-0-2024-54661)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-04 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-09 16:30

Summary

readline.sh in socat before1.8.0.2 relies on the /tmp/$USER/stderr2 file.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-12-04 14:54 UTC

CWE

CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
CWE-noinfo Not enough information

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://repo.or.cz/socat.git/blob/6ff391324d2d3b9…
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-s…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
dest-unreach	socat	Affected: 1.6.0.0 , < 1.8.0.2 (custom) Affected: 2.0.0-b1 , ≤ 2.0.0-b9 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:dest-unreach:socat:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:dest-unreach:socat::::::::
dest-unreach	socat	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.8.0.1 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:dest-unreach:socat::::::::

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