CVE-2012-6051

Publication date

2012-11-28 11:00:00

Family

mitre

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.