Denial of Service Vulnerability in socat 1.2.0.0 - 1.7.2.2 and 2.0.0-b1 - 2.0.0-b6

CVE-2013-3571 · LOW Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

socat 1.2.0.0 before 1.7.2.2 and 2.0.0-b1 before 2.0.0-b6, when used for a listen type address and the fork option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via multiple request that are refused based on the (1) sourceport, (2) lowport, (3) range, or (4) tcpwrap restrictions.

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