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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-12-30T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:16:35.050Z

Reserved: 2011-12-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-4815

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-12-30T01:55:01.437

Modified: 2017-08-29T01:30:35.443

Link: CVE-2011-4815

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2011-4815 - Bugzilla