PT-2012-4778

CVE-2012-3514

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Published

2012-08-25

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Updated

2014-02-12

Description by

CVSS 2.0
5.0
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OCaml Xml-Light Library versions prior to r234
Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by triggering hash collisions predictably. This is due to the library's computation of hash values without proper restrictions.
Recommendations For versions prior to r234, update to version r234 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Fix
Researchers
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Weakness enumeration
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