Denial of Service Vulnerability in Google CityHash
CVE-2012-6051 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Google CityHash 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.
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