RHSA-2025:10646MediumCVSS 5.3

Red Hat Security Advisory: socat security update

Published
July 8, 2025
Last Modified
October 21, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-54661 →

📋 Description

CVE-2024-54661 — socat: arbitrary file overwrite via predictable /tmp directory

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-debuginfo-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-debuginfo-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-debuginfo-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-debuginfo-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-debugsource-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-debugsource-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-debugsource-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)
  • socat-debugsource-0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (4)