CVE-2012-3420

Summary

CVECVE-2012-3420
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-08-27 23:55:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:11:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.1 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.10 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.11 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.2 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.3 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.4 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.5 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.6 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.7 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.8 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.9 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.2 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.1 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.10 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.11 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.2 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.3 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.4 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.5 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.6 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.7 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.8 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.1.9 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot 2.2 All All All
Application Sgi Performance Co-pilot All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 841704 – CVE-2012-3420 pcp: two memory leaks can lead to pcmd crash or trigger OOM killer MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
841298 – pmcd leaks memory in DoFetch error path MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
openSUSE-SU-2012:1079 SUSE hermes.opensuse.org
oss.sgi.com Git - pcp/pcp.git/blob - CHANGELOG CONFIRM oss.sgi.com
841319 – In-band signalling in __pmGetPDU leads to pmcd memory leak MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
oss.sgi.com Git - pcp/pcp.git/blob - CHANGELOG oss.sgi.com
openSUSE-SU-2012:1036 SUSE hermes.opensuse.org
Invalid URL CONFIRM oss.sgi.com
openSUSE-SU-2012:1081 SUSE hermes.opensuse.org
Invalid URL oss.sgi.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: pcp-3.6.5-1.fc16 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Invalid URL CONFIRM oss.sgi.com
Invalid URL oss.sgi.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:0190-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: pcp-3.6.5-1.fc17 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - pcp: Multiple security flaws MLIST www.openwall.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2533-1 pcp DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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