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CVE-2012-3421 severity moderate: SUSE including 260 source package names (libpcp-devel-3.10.4-1.23, libpcp-devel-3.11.9-3.116, …), 306 product×package rows across 16 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15, … (16 product lines)): Fixed 306.
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."