CVE-2013-4550 Other in n/a
Remote attackers can write to arbitrary sockets via failed SSL handshakes in Bip daemon mode, potentially causing unspecified impacts.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-4550?
CVE-2013-4550 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 24 Dec 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5268. NOTE: some sources originally mapped this CVE to two different types of issues; this CVE has since been SPLIT, producing CVE-2011-5268.
Weakness: CWE-310
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4550?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Duckcorp Bip, Fedoraproject Fedora.
How do I fix CVE-2013-4550?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2013-4550 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4550 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4550, GHSA-5pvf-rqx7-vw7q, MGASA-2013-0351.