VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-3259

medium
Published 2011-10-14 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
macos macOS Affected 19 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
4.3.5 Affected —
4.3.3 Affected —
4.3.2 Affected —
4.3.1 Affected —
4.3.0 Affected —
4.2.8 Affected —
4.2.5 Affected —
4.2.1 Affected —
4.1 Affected —
4.0.2 Affected —
4.0.1 Affected —
4.0 Affected —
3.2.2 Affected —
3.2.1 Affected —
3.2 Affected —
3.1.3 Affected —
3.1.2 Affected —
3.1 Affected —
3.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos appleapple_tv4.0
macos appleapple_tv4.1
macos appleapple_tv4.2
macos appleapple_tv4.3

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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