Security Advisory

CVE-2012-3421

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-08-27 23:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 20:05:12

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

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."

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