Security update for socat
socat was updated 1.7.2.4 to fix one security issue and bugs.
The following vulnerabilities were fixed:
* socats PROXY-CONNECT address was vulnerable to a buffer overflow with data from command line (CVE-2014-0019, boo#860991)
The following bugs were fixed:
* socat would frequently crash on ppc and armv7l (boo#927161)
* various other bug fixes in 1.7.2.4
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Submitted by
Ruediger Meier (rudi_m)
Fixed bugs
bnc#860991
VUL-1: CVE-2014-0019: socat: PROXY-CONNECT address overflow
bnc#927161
socat broken for ppc and armv7l
