The Perforce service (p4s.exe) in Perforce Server 2007.3/143793 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon…

Description

The Perforce service (p4s.exe) in Perforce Server 2007.3/143793 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a server-DiffFile command with an integer value within a certain range, which causes a loop until all memory is exhausted.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-189 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-189 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• http://aluigi.org/poc/perforces.zip (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 28108 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20080305 Multiple vulnerabilities in Perforce Server 2007.3/143793 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• perforce-server-p4s-dos(41361) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 29231 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/perforces-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 3735 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• perforceserver-serverdifffile-dos(41017) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 08:17 UTC.