CVE-2011-5268 Information

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.

Reference

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