CVE-2012-5373 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://2012.appsec-forum.ch/conferences/c17 http://asfws12.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/asfws2012-jean_philippe_aumasson-martin_bosslet-hash_flooding_dos_reloaded.pdf http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2012-001.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56673 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880705 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80299 https://www.131002.net/data/talks/appsec12_slides.pdf