CVE-2011-4838 (GCVE-0-2011-4838)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-12-30 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:16
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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