CVE-2012-3421

2012-08-2700:00:00

ubuntu.com

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.”