🛡️ OESA-2026-2942 — socat

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
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Description

socat security update

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):

socat versions 1.8.0.0 through 1.8.1.1 contain a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows a malicious SOCKS5 proxy server to overwrite adjacent heap memory by exploiting a sign-extension flaw in the DOMAINNAME reply parser. During connection setup, the domain name length byte is read through a signed char field causing a negative bytes_to_read value that is implicitly converted to size_t, resulting in an unbounded heap write into the 262-byte reply buffer with attacker-controlled size and content.(CVE-2026-56123)

Affected software

OESA-2026-2942 is recorded against 1 package.

  • socat (fixed in 1.8.1.3-1.oe2403sp3)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 July 2026 and last revised on 14 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-09
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
socat — 1.8.1.3-1.oe2403sp3

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