CVE-2015-1379 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1379?

CVE-2015-1379 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Jun 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The signal handler implementations in socat before 1.7.3.0 and 2.0.0-b8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process freeze or crash).

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1379?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dest-Unreach Socat.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1379?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-1379 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1379 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2026-56123 socat 1.8.0.0 - 1.8.1.1 Heap Buffer Overflow via SOCKS5 Reply Parser Critical 9.2
• CVE-2010-2799 Memory corruption in n/a Medium 6.8
• CVE-2012-0219 Memory corruption in n/a Medium 6.2
• CVE-2016-2217 Weak cryptography in n/a Medium 5.3
• CVE-2013-3571 Denial of service in n/a Low 2.6

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1379, GHSA-mhm8-j49g-j7wp, MGASA-2015-0144, SUSE-SU-2025:0726-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1379.