5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.049 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.8%
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.”
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | pcp | < 3.6.5 | pcp_3.6.5_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | pcp | < 3.6.5 | pcp_3.6.5_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | pcp | < 3.6.5 | pcp_3.6.5_all.deb |