CVE-2011-4815

CVE Details

Release Date:	2011-12-28
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Ruby (aka CRuby) before 1.8.7-p357 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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ruby)	ELSA-2012-0070	2012-01-30
Oracle Linux version 5 (ruby)	ELSA-2012-0070	2012-01-30
Oracle Linux version 6 (ruby)	ELSA-2012-0069	2012-01-30