Memory leaks in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) before 3.6.5 can lead to denial of service

CVE-2012-3420 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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