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CVE-2012-3420 (GCVE-0-2012-3420)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-27 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2012-08-12 00:00
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}



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