CVE-2012-3534: Gnugk GNU Gatekeeper

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNU Gatekeeper before 3.1 does not limit the number of connections to the status port, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection and thread consumption) via a large number of connections.

Affected products

• Gnugk GNU Gatekeeper: up to and including 3.1; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; version 2.0.6 only; version 2.0.7 only; …
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only

Published 2012-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.