Hash Collision Denial of Service Vulnerability in OCaml 3.12.1 and Earlier

CVE-2012-0839 · MEDIUM Severity

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

OCaml 3.12.1 and earlier 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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