CVE-2011-4838
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-12-30 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 00:16
Severity ?
Summary
JRuby before 1.6.5.1 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.htmlBroken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://jruby.org/2011/12/27/jruby-1-6-5-1.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1232.htmlBroken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/47407Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/50084Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-06.xmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdfThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72019Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
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