CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3259
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-10-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The kernel in Apple iOS before 5 and Apple TV before 4.4 does not properly recover memory allocated for incomplete TCP connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by making many connection attempts.
Affected configurations
• apple apple tv 4.0
• apple apple tv 4.1
• apple apple tv 4.2
• apple apple tv 4.3
• apple iphone os 3.0
• apple iphone os 3.1
• apple iphone os 3.1.2
• apple iphone os 3.1.3
• apple iphone os 3.2
• apple iphone os 3.2.1
• apple iphone os 3.2.2
• apple iphone os 4.0
• apple iphone os 4.0.1
• apple iphone os 4.0.2
• apple iphone os 4.1
• apple iphone os 4.2.1
• apple iphone os 4.2.5
• apple iphone os 4.2.8
• apple iphone os 4.3.0
• apple iphone os 4.3.1
• apple iphone os 4.3.2
• apple iphone os 4.3.3
• apple iphone os 4.3.5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00002.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4999 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5001 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50087 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70530 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00002.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4999 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5001 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50087 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70530 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com