CVE-2012-3534

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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: through 3.1; 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8 (+19)
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00070.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50343
http://www.gnugk.org/gnugk-3.1.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/25/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/25/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/27/1
http://www.osvdb.org/84862
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55198
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77975
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00070.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50343
http://www.gnugk.org/gnugk-3.1.html

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