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Oracle JRE Cryptographic Issues Vulnerability - CVE-2012-5373 - Vulnerability Database
Oracle JRE

Oracle JRE Cryptographic Issues Vulnerability - CVE-2012-5373

Medium
Reference: CVE-2012-5373
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5373
Title: Oracle JRE Cryptographic Issues Vulnerability
Overview:

Oracle Java SE 7 and earlier and OpenJDK 7 and earlier 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 MurmurHash3 algorithm a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2739.