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vulnerability announce CVE-2011-4815 CVE-2011-4838

Ruby: 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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Ruby: denial of service via hash collision

Characteristics

Title: Ruby: denial of service via hash collision.
Keywords: Ruby collision denial hash service.
Identifiers: BID-51198, CERTA-2011-AVI-729, CERTA-2012-AVI-185, CVE-2011-4815, CVE-2011-4838, FEDORA-2011-17542, FEDORA-2011-17551, FEDORA-2012-0166, FEDORA-2012-0233, MDVSA-2012:024, openSUSE-SU-2012:0228-1, RHSA-2012:0069-01, RHSA-2012:0070-01, VIGILANCE-VUL-11382.
Pointed by: VIGILANCE-VUL-11254.

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