CVE-2012-3534 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNU Gatekeeper versions prior to 3.1. The flaw allows remote attackers to exhaust system resources by establishing an excessive number of connections to the status port, leading to connection and thread consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnugk:gnu_gatekeeper:*:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnugk:gnu_gatekeeper:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnugk:gnu_gatekeeper:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.