Performance Metrics Collector Daemon (PMCD) in Performance Copilot in IRIX 6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via an extremely long s...
Date: 2001-08
Affected: sgi/irix
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2000-0283
CVE-2000-1193
CVSS: 5 ()

Performance Metrics Collector Daemon (PMCD) in Performance Copilot in IRIX 6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via an extremely long string to the PMCD port.


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