Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3421

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

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3421.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 27, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3421: 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."

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=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 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=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

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-2012-3421 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.