Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6051

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-11-28 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 23:06:27
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Google CityHash 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.