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CVE-2012-3420: sgi performance_co-pilot Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2012-3420DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3420
Published 27-08-2012Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-3420 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in sgi performance_co-pilot. EPSS estimates a 2.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.42%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DSA-2533-1

Timeline

  1. 27-08-2012
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.42%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.42% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
2.42%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • pcp< 3.6.5
Sgi1 product
  • performance_co-pilot≤ 3.6.4 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.3 | 2.1.4 | 2.1.5 | 2.1.6 | 2.1.7 | 2.1.8 | 2.1.9 | 2.1.10 | 2.1.11 | 2.2
Ubuntu1 product
  • pcp< 3.8.12ubuntu1

3 vendors · 3 products

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