National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3421

Overview

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."

Impact

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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=841706

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841706

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=9ba85dca940de976176ce196fd5e3c4170936354

Hyperlink:http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=commit;h=9ba85dca940de976176ce196fd5e3c4170936354

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