CVE-2012-3534 (GCVE-0-2012-3534)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:13
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
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| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55198 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/50343 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.gnugk.org/gnugk-3.1.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/25/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.osvdb.org/84862 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
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Date Public
2012-08-24 00:00
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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