CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5372
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-28
- 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-310
Description
Rubinius computes hash values without properly 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, as demonstrated by a universal multicollision attack against the MurmurHash3 algorithm.
Affected configurations
• rubinius rubinius
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://2012.appsec-forum.ch/conferences/#c17 2012.appsec-forum.ch
- http://asfws12.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/asfws2012-jean_philippe_aumasson-martin_bosslet-hash_flooding_dos_reloaded.pdf Exploit
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2012-001.html www.ocert.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56670 www.securityfocus.com
- https://www.131002.net/data/talks/appsec12_slides.pdf Exploit
- http://2012.appsec-forum.ch/conferences/#c17 2012.appsec-forum.ch
- http://asfws12.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/asfws2012-jean_philippe_aumasson-martin_bosslet-hash_flooding_dos_reloaded.pdf Exploit
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2012-001.html www.ocert.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56670 www.securityfocus.com
- https://www.131002.net/data/talks/appsec12_slides.pdf Exploit