National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3420

Overview

Multiple memory leaks in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) before 3.6.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or daemon crash) via a large number of PDUs with (1) a crafted context number to the DoFetch function in pmcd/src/dofetch.c or (2) a negative type value to the __pmGetPDU function in libpcp/src/pdu.c.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1081

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540172

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1079

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540133

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1036

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15471040

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841704

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841704

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841319

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841319

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841298

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841298

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120816 pcp: Multiple security flaws

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/1

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2533

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=commit;h=a7dc844d3586ea79887655a97c4252a79751fdae

Hyperlink:http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=commit;h=a7dc844d3586ea79887655a97c4252a79751fdae

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=commit;h=68fb968b4ee635bb301dc9ab64e633b0d66d27b4

Hyperlink:http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=commit;h=68fb968b4ee635bb301dc9ab64e633b0d66d27b4

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=blob;f=CHANGELOG;h=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5;hb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6

Hyperlink:http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=blob;f=CHANGELOG;h=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5;hb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2013:0190

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00024.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-12076

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085333.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-12024

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085324.html