CVEs-PoC/2011/CVE-2011-5268.md

### [CVE-2011-5268](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-5268)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://projects.duckcorp.org/versions/13

#### Github
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