RHSA-2025:11042MediumCVSS 5.3

Red Hat Security Advisory: socat security update

Published
July 15, 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 (v. 8)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-debuginfo-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-debuginfo-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-debuginfo-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-debuginfo-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-debugsource-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-debugsource-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-debugsource-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • socat-debugsource-0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)

✅ 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)