CVE-2012-3420: Sgi Performance Co-Pilot

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sgi Performance Co-Pilot: up to and including 3.6.4; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.1.3 only; version 2.1.4 only; version 2.1.5 only; …

Published 2012-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.