Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ruby (CRuby) 1.8.7-p357

CVE-2011-4815 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Ruby (aka CRuby) before 1.8.7-p357 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.

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