CVE-2012-2739 (GCVE-0-2012-2739)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-28 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:42
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Summary
Oracle Java SE before 7 Update 6, and OpenJDK 7 before 7u6 build 12 and 8 before build 39, 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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CWE
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