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).

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXBA:2017-1813:01 advisory.

  - 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). (CVE-2015-1379)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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). (CVE-2015-1379)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:0726-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2015-1379: lack of async-signal-safe signal handlers can lead to crashes or freezing of socat     processes       (bsc#922903).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the version of the socat package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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).(CVE-2015-1379)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
291408	MiracleLinux 7 : socat-1.7.3.2-2.el7 (AXBA:2017-1813:01)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
218676	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-1379	Nessus	Misc.	high
216897	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : socat (SUSE-SU-2025:0726-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
132198	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : socat (EulerOS-SA-2019-2663)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
131851	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : socat (EulerOS-SA-2019-2359)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-1379

high

Tenable Plugins

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high

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