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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SGI
- Published
- 8/27/2012
- Last Modified
- 4/11/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
sgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilotsgi : performance_co-pilot
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