Cryptographic Issues Affecting jruby package, versions <1.7.19-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-JRUBY-384410
  • published28 Nov 2012
  • disclosed28 Nov 2012

Introduced: 28 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5370  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 jruby to version 1.7.19-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jruby package and not the jruby package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

JRuby 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 against the MurmurHash2 algorithm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4838.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1