PT-2012-5956

CVE-2012-5372

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Published

2012-11-28

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Updated

2013-02-26

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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 Rubinius (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by triggering hash collisions predictably in applications that maintain a hash table. This can be achieved through crafted input, as demonstrated by a universal multicollision attack against the MurmurHash3 algorithm.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Researchers
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Weakness enumeration
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