CVE-2012-3421

Description

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

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540172

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540133

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15471040

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3