FKIE_CVE-2012-3534
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-08-31 20:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:43
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| opensuse | leap | 42.1 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.2 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | * | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.0.3 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.0.4 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.0.5 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.0.6 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.0.7 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.0.8 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.0.9 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.0 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.1 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.2 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.3 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.4 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.5 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.6 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.7 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.8 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.2.9 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.3.0 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.3.1 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.3.2 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.3.3 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.3.4 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 2.3.5 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 3.0 | |
| gnugk | gnu_gatekeeper | 3.0 |
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