CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-3421

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2012-08-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-08-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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."

Affected configurations

• sgi performance co-pilot (<= 3.6.4) • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.1 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.2 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.3 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.4 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.5 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.6 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.7 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.8 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.9 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.10 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.1.11 • sgi performance co-pilot 2.2

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