CVE-2011-5268

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

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.

Affected products

Duckcorp Bip: through 0.8.8; 0.8.0, 0.8.0-rc0, 0.8.0-rc1, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3 (+4)
Fedoraproject Fedora: 18, 19, 20

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/121868.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/122274.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/122278.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/02/9
https://projects.duckcorp.org/issues/261
https://projects.duckcorp.org/versions/13
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/121868.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/122274.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/122278.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/02/9
https://projects.duckcorp.org/issues/261
https://projects.duckcorp.org/versions/13

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