CVE-2012-3421 Information

Description

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.\

Reference

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;a=blob;f=CHANGELOG;h=16c9cbb2f61d909487ea1c3171f4ab33e5648ac5;hb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6 http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=commit;h=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