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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-4815

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-4815

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
12/29/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ruby
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-doc-ri
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-examples
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-test-suite
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-tk

References

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