CVE-2012-3420 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Performance Co-Pilot via crafted PDUs, leading to memory exhaustion or daemon crashes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2012-3420?
CVE-2012-3420 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3420?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sgi Performance Co-Pilot.
How do I fix CVE-2012-3420?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2012-3420 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3420 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3420, GHSA-2fm8-cg34-48gj.