Vulnerability CVE-2012-3421
Published: 2012-08-27   Modified: 2012-08-28

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."

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
SGI -> Performance co-pilot 

 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;a=commit;h=9ba85dca940de976176ce196fd5e3c4170936354
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=blob;f=CHANGELOG;h=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5;hb=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
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