CVE-2011-5268

Description

connection.c in Bip before 0.8.9 does not properly close sockets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption and crash) via multiple failed SSL handshakes, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4550. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2013-4550 because it is a different type of issue.

References

https://projects.duckcorp.org/versions/13

https://projects.duckcorp.org/issues/261

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/02/9

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/122278.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/122274.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/121868.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3