CVE-2024-54661
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
readline.sh in socat before1.8.0.2 relies on the /tmp/$USER/stderr2 file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.8.0.2-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.8.0.2-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.8.0.2-1 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
Red Hat Fixed 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | — |
| 8 | Fixed | — |
Rocky Linux Fixed 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | — |
| 8 | Fixed | — |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10353
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:11042
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-54661.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:10353
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-54661
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11042
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2330297
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-11042.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-10353.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.