CVE-2012-3421

2012-08-2723:55:02

Debian Security Bug Tracker

security-tracker.debian.org

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.”

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Debian12allpcp< 3.6.5pcp_3.6.5_all.deb
Debian11allpcp< 3.6.5pcp_3.6.5_all.deb
Debian999allpcp< 3.6.5pcp_3.6.5_all.deb