CVE-2011-4815
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-12-30 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 00:16
Severity ?
Summary
Ruby (aka CRuby) before 1.8.7-p357 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/391606
cve@mitre.orghttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN90615481/index.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2012/JVNDB-2012-000066.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0069.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0070.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/47405
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/47822
cve@mitre.orghttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/12/28/denial-of-service-attack-was-found-for-rubys-hash-algorithm/
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026474
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72020
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