VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3534

medium
Published 2012-08-31 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper{"endIncluding":"3.1"}
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.0.3
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.0.4
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.0.5
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.0.6
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.0.7
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.0.8
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.0.9
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.0
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.1
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.2
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.3
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.4
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.5
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.6
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.7
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.8
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.2.9
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.3.0
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.3.1
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.3.2
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.3.3
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.3.4
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper2.3.5
gnugkgnu_gatekeeper3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.