CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-0039

7.5 HIGH Published 2012-01-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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