National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3534
Original release date:08/31/2012
Last revised:09/11/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
GNU Gatekeeper before 3.1 does not limit the number of connections to the status port, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection and thread consumption) via a large number of connections.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: XF
Name: gatekeeper-unspec-code-exec(77975)
External Source: BID
Name: 55198
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 84862
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120826 Re: Re: information request on security bug fix in GNU Gatekeeper 3.1
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120825 Re: information request on security bug fix in GNU Gatekeeper 3.1
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120824 information request on security bug fix in GNU Gatekeeper 3.1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.gnugk.org/gnugk-3.1.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 50343
Type: Advisory
