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GHSA-5M4G-M6FJ-7R63

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 05:15 – Updated: 2025-04-11 04:01

Details

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."

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CVE-2012-3421 (GCVE-0-2012-3421)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-27 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

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

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GHSA-5M4G-M6FJ-7R63

CVE-2012-3421 (GCVE-0-2012-3421)

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