Denial of Service Vulnerability in Oracle Java SE and OpenJDK

CVE-2012-5373 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Oracle Java SE 7 and earlier, and OpenJDK 7 and earlier, computes hash values without properly 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, as demonstrated by a universal multicollision attack against the MurmurHash3 algorithm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2739.

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