Is CVE-2012-3420 actively exploited?

CVE-2012-3420 has no public evidence of in-the-wild exploitation as of 2025-04-11.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2012-3420?

CVE-2012-3420 has a CVSS score of 5 (UNKNOWN severity). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P.

How do I patch CVE-2012-3420?

Patch guidance is available from sgi security advisories. CVEDatabase generates AI-assisted remediation guidance on demand for CVE-2012-3420.

CVE-2012-3420 - remediation guidance & executive summary

Q: Which products are affected by CVE-2012-3420?

13 products: sgi performance co-pilot, sgi performance co-pilot, sgi performance co-pilot, sgi performance co-pilot, sgi performance co-pilot, and 8 more.

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

Remediation Guidance

Executive Summary

View on NIST NVD