CVE-2012-3421

2012-08-2723:00:00

redhat

www.cve.org

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.049 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.8%

JSON

The pduread function in pdu.c in libpcp in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) before 3.6.5 does not properly time out connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pmcd hang) by sending individual bytes of a PDU separately, related to an “event-driven programming flaw.”

References

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085324.html

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085333.html

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00024.html

oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGELOG%3Bh=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5%3Bhb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6

oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ba85dca940de976176ce196fd5e3c4170936354

www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2533

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/1

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841706

hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15471040

hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540133

hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540172