Unrestricted Hash Collision Vulnerability in OCaml Xml-Light Library

CVE-2012-3514 · MEDIUM Severity

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

OCaml Xml-Light Library before r234 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 unspecified vectors.

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