CVE-2012-3421

SGI Performance Co-pilot < 3.6.4 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

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."

References (11)

[Various Sources] http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGELOG%3Bh=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5%3Bhb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6

[Various Sources] http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ba85dca940de976176ce196fd5e3c4170936354

[Various Sources] https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15471040

[Various Sources] https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540133

[Various Sources] https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540172

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00024.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085324.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085333.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2533

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/1

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841706

Scores

EPSS 0.0246

EPSS Percentile 85.0%

Classification

Status draft

Affected Products (13)

sgi/performance_co-pilot < 3.6.4

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

sgi/performance_co-pilot

Timeline

Published Aug 27, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026