Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability in Apple iOS and Apple TV

CVE-2011-3259 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The kernel in Apple iOS before 5 and Apple TV before 4.4 does not properly recover memory allocated for incomplete TCP connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by making many connection attempts.

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