CVE-2012-5371

ruby: Murmur hash-flooding DoS flaw in ruby 1.9 (oCERT-2012-001)

Published Nov 28, 2012 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 3.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
Ruby (aka CRuby) 1.9 before 1.9.3-p327 and 2.0 before r37575 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 a variant of the MurmurHash2 algorithm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4815.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-263-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-5290 Ruby (aka CRuby) 1.9 before 1.9.3-p327 and 2.0 before r37575 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 a variant of the MurmurHash2 algorithm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4815.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1733-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 9:05 PM
Reserved
Oct 10, 2012, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 28, 2012, 1:03 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:46 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Nov 9, 2012, 12:00 AM