Hash Collision Vulnerability in Python

CVE-2012-1150 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 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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