Vulnerability CVE-2013-4550
Published: 2013-12-24

Description:
Bip before 0.8.9, when running as a daemon, writes SSL handshake errors to an unexpected file descriptor that was previously associated with stderr before stderr has been closed, which allows remote attackers to write to other sockets and have an unspecified impact via a failed SSL handshake.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
bip 0.8.8 denial of service via resource leak
Marc
08.11.2013

Type:

CWE-310

 (Cryptographic Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.1/10
6.4/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Duckcorp -> BIP 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/121868.html
https://projects.duckcorp.org/issues/261
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/122278.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/122274.html
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