PT-2012-6242

CVE-2012-6051

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Published

2012-11-28

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Updated

2012-11-29

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 Google CityHash (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table. This is demonstrated by a universal multicollision attack, which exploits the hash collision predictability in Google CityHash.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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