Vigil@nce - Java Language: denial of service via hash collision
July 2012 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can send data generating storage collisions, in order
to overload a service.
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 18/06/2012
IMPACTED PRODUCTS
– Java JRE/JDK
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The bulletin VIGILANCE-VUL-11254 describes a vulnerability which
can be used to create a denial of service on several applications.
This vulnerability impacts the Java language (java.util.HashMap,
Hashtable, LinkedHashMap, WeakHashMap and ConcurrentHashMap).
In order to simplify VIGILANCE-VUL-11254, which was too big,
solutions for Java were moved here.
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