FKIE_CVE-2012-3421

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-08-27 23:55 - Updated: 2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085324.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085333.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00024.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGELOG%3Bh=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5%3Bhb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6
secalert@redhat.comhttp://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ba85dca940de976176ce196fd5e3c4170936354
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2533
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841706
secalert@redhat.comhttps://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15471040
secalert@redhat.comhttps://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540133
secalert@redhat.comhttps://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540172
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085324.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085333.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00024.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGELOG%3Bh=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5%3Bhb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ba85dca940de976176ce196fd5e3c4170936354
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2533
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841706
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15471040
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540133
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540172
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sgi performance_co-pilot *
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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