Denial of Service Vulnerability in APR Hash Table

CVE-2012-0840 · MEDIUM Severity

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

tables/apr_hash.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library through 1.4.5 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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