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.
Published: 2012-02-08
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-0864 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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T18:38:14.933Z

Reserved: 2012-01-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-0839

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-02-08T20:55:00.797

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-0839

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-12-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-0839 - Bugzilla

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