# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.1 (`AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 24 Dec 2013
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4550, GHSA-5pvf-rqx7-vw7q, MGASA-2013-0351

## 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: 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

- [CVE-2012-0806](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-0806/): Memory corruption in n/a (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2010-3071](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-3071/): Null dereference in n/a (medium 5.0)
- [CVE-2011-5268](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-5268/): Denial of service in n/a (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-4550 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4550 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fedoraproject Fedora. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4550/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4550/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4550
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4550
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4550

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4550/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.