debian · CVE-2012-3420

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:58:15 GMT

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CVE-2012-3420 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (pcp), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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