CVE-2012-3421
Estado: ModificadaMedia (5)—
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."
CVSS
- Versión: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Puntuación base: 5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 3.31%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 88
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-Other
Referencias
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085324.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085333.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00024.html
- http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGELOG%3Bh=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5%3Bhb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6
- http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ba85dca940de976176ce196fd5e3c4170936354
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2533
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841706
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15471040
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540133
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540172
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085324.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085333.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00024.html
- http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGELOG%3Bh=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5%3Bhb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6
- http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ba85dca940de976176ce196fd5e3c4170936354
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2533
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841706
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15471040
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540133
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540172
JSON original (NVD)
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