[Secure-testing-team] Bug#709931: socat: CVE-2013-3571: file descriptor leak

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Package: socat
Severity: important
Tags: security patch upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for socat.

CVE-2013-3571[0]:
FD leak

Upstream advisory is at [1], and also contain patches.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3571
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-3571
[1] http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv4.html

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore