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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-3420

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-3420

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/27/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libpcp-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpcp-devel-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-libpcp3
  • suse-upgrade-libpcp3-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pcp
  • suse-upgrade-pcp-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pcp-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-pcp-devel
  • suse-upgrade-pcp-import-iostat2pcp
  • suse-upgrade-pcp-import-mrtg2pcp
  • suse-upgrade-pcp-import-sar2pcp
  • suse-upgrade-pcp-import-sheet2pcp
  • suse-upgrade-perl-pcp-logimport
  • suse-upgrade-perl-pcp-logimport-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-perl-pcp-logsummary
  • suse-upgrade-perl-pcp-mmv
  • suse-upgrade-perl-pcp-mmv-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-perl-pcp-pmda
  • suse-upgrade-perl-pcp-pmda-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-permissions
  • suse-upgrade-sle-sdk-release

References

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