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.”