Vulnerability in Sgi Performance Co-Pilot
CVE-2012-3421
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."
EPSS: 0.033 (87.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sgi Performance_co-pilot — versions 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)