CVE-2010-2799
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 2.8%EU EUVD
Stack-based buffer overflow in the nestlex function in nestlex.c in Socat 1.5.0.0 through 1.7.1.2 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b3, when bidirectional data relay is enabled, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via long command-line arguments.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 2.8% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2803)
- Published
- September 14, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2803 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 25, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- dest-unreach / socat
- dest-unreach / socat
- dest-unreach / socat
- dest-unreach / socat
- dest-unreach / socat
- dest-unreach / socat
- dest-unreach / socat
- dest-unreach / socat
- dest-unreach / socat
- dest-unreach / socat
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591443
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330785
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2090
- http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv2.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.1.3.patch(Patch)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620426
- https://github.com/msmania/poodim/commit/6340d5d2c81e55e61522c4b40a6cdd5c39738cc6
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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