CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0039
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-01-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
GLib 2.31.8 and earlier, when the g_str_hash function is used, 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. NOTE: this issue may be disputed by the vendor; the existence of the g_str_hash function is not a vulnerability in the library, because callers of g_hash_table_new and g_hash_table_new_full can specify an arbitrary hash function that is appropriate for the application.
Affected configurations
• gnome glib (<= 2.31.8)
• gnome glib 1.1.12
• gnome glib 1.1.12-1
• gnome glib 1.1.15
• gnome glib 1.2.0
• gnome glib 1.2.1
• gnome glib 1.2.2
• gnome glib 1.2.3
• gnome glib 1.2.4
• gnome glib 1.2.5
• gnome glib 1.2.6
• gnome glib 1.2.7
• gnome glib 1.2.8
• gnome glib 1.2.9
• gnome glib 1.2.10
• gnome glib 1.3.9
• gnome glib 1.3.10
• gnome glib 1.3.11
• gnome glib 1.3.12
• gnome glib 1.3.13
• gnome glib 1.3.14
• gnome glib 1.3.15
• gnome glib 2.0
• gnome glib 2.0.0
• gnome glib 2.0.1
• gnome glib 2.0.2
• gnome glib 2.0.3
• gnome glib 2.0.4
• gnome glib 2.0.5
• gnome glib 2.0.6
• gnome glib 2.0.7
• gnome glib 2.1.0
• gnome glib 2.1.1
• gnome glib 2.1.2
• gnome glib 2.1.3
• gnome glib 2.1.4
• gnome glib 2.1.5
• gnome glib 2.2.0
• gnome glib 2.2.1
• gnome glib 2.2.2
• gnome glib 2.2.3
• gnome glib 2.3.0
• gnome glib 2.3.1
• gnome glib 2.3.2
• gnome glib 2.3.3
• gnome glib 2.3.4
• gnome glib 2.3.5
• gnome glib 2.3.6
• gnome glib 2.4.0
• gnome glib 2.4.1
• gnome glib 2.4.2
• gnome glib 2.4.3
• gnome glib 2.4.4
• gnome glib 2.4.5
• gnome glib 2.4.6
• gnome glib 2.4.7
• gnome glib 2.4.8
• gnome glib 2.5.0
• gnome glib 2.5.1
• gnome glib 2.5.2
… and 197 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655044 bugs.debian.org
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-May/msg00111.html mail.gnome.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/10/12 openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772720 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655044 bugs.debian.org
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-May/msg00111.html mail.gnome.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/10/12 openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772720 bugzilla.redhat.com