CVE-2000-1193: Performance Metrics Collector Daemon (PMCD) in Performance Copilot in IRIX 6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial

CVE-2000-1193 is a vulnerability in Performance Copilot's PMCD (Performance Metrics Collector Daemon, a service that monitors system performance metrics) on IRIX 6.x systems that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion, where a system runs out of memory or processing power) by sending an extremely long string to the PMCD port. The vulnerability has a CVSS 4.0 severity rating (a 0-10 scale measuring how serious the vulnerability is).