Denial of Service via Failed SSL Handshakes in Bip before 0.8.9

CVE-2011-5268 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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