CVE-2011-4838
N/A
Published: December 30, 2011 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorJruby
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
JRuby before 1.6.5.1 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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (10)
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://jruby.org/2011/12/27/jruby-1-6-5-1.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1232.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-06.xmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdfQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400
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