CVE-2012-3421

Name	CVE-2012-3421
Description	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."
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-2533-1
Debian Bugs	685476

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
pcp (PTS)	buster	4.3.2+really4.3.1-0.1	fixed
	bullseye	5.2.6-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.0.3-1.1	fixed
	trixie	6.2.0-1	fixed
	sid	6.2.0-1.1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
pcp	source	squeeze	3.3.3-squeeze2		DSA-2533-1
pcp	source	(unstable)	3.6.5			685476