{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3420","details":"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.","modified":"2026-09-05T06:47:43.192990928Z","published":"2012-08-27T23:55:02.227Z","upstream":["CVE-2012-3420"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3420"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pcp","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/pcp?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.6.5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3420.json"}},{"package":{"name":"pcp","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/pcp?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.6.5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3420.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}