CVE-2012-0839

Description

OCaml 3.12.1 and earlier 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.

References

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html

http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf

http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01478.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01477.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/47853

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/2

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3