Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3420

Title: Sgi Performance Co-Pilot Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3420.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Aug 27, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3420: 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.

Impacted Vendors

sgi 1

Reference Links

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%3Bhb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6 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%3Bhb=fe51067ae869a4d59f350ac319b09edcb77ac8e6 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3420 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 27, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.