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.

- Upstream v0.8.9

    - CVE-2013-4550 - failed SSL handshake resource leak

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
70993	Fedora 19 : bip-0.8.9-1.fc19 (2013-21060)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
70990	Fedora 18 : bip-0.8.9-1.fc18 (2013-21018)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
70912	Fedora 20 : bip-0.8.9-1.fc20 (2013-21006)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2011-5268

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium