CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0839
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-02-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
OCaml 3.12.1 and earlier 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.
Affected configurations
• inria ocaml (<= 3.12.1)
• inria ocaml 1.07
• inria ocaml 2.02
• inria ocaml 2.04
• inria ocaml 2.99
• inria ocaml 3.00
• inria ocaml 3.01
• inria ocaml 3.02
• inria ocaml 3.03
• inria ocaml 3.04
• inria ocaml 3.05
• inria ocaml 3.06
• inria ocaml 3.07
• inria ocaml 3.08
• inria ocaml 3.09
• inria ocaml 3.10
• inria ocaml 3.11
• inria ocaml 3.12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/1 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/2 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47853 secunia.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01477.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01478.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf www.nruns.com
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html www.ocert.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/1 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/2 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47853 secunia.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01477.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01478.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf www.nruns.com
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html www.ocert.org