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Vulnerability record · CVE-2012-3420 · published 27 August 2012

CVE-2012-3420: Sgi performance co-pilot vulnerability

Sgi · Performance Co Pilot

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.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 2.4% · top 16.5% CWE-399 · CWE-399
5.0CVSS 2.0 base score
2.4%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
28References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
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%
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=68fb968b4ee635bb301dc9ab64e633b0d66d27b4
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7dc844d3586ea79887655a97c4252a79751fdae
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=841298
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841319
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841704
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%
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=68fb968b4ee635bb301dc9ab64e633b0d66d27b4
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7dc844d3586ea79887655a97c4252a79751fdae
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=841298
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841319
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841704
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15471040
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540133
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15540172

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