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vulnerability alert CVE-2011-5035

Java: denial of service via hash collision

Synthesis of the vulnerability

An attacker can send data generating storage collisions, in order to overload a service.

Severity: 3/4.
Creation date: 22/02/2012.

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Description of the vulnerability

The bulletin VIGILANCE-VUL-11254 describes a vulnerability which can be used to ...

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Java: denial of service via hash collision

Characteristics

Title: Java: denial of service via hash collision.
Keywords: Java collision denial hash service.
Identifiers: BID-51236, c03254184, CVE-2011-4838-ERROR, CVE-2011-5035, DSA 2420-1, HPSBUX02757, MDVSA-2012:021, openSUSE-SU-2012:0309-1, RHSA-2012:0139-01, RHSA-2012:0514-01, SSRT100779, SUSE-SU-2012:0308-1, VIGILANCE-VUL-11381.
Pointed by: VIGILANCE-VUL-11254.

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