PT-2011-5137 · Jruby · Jruby

Alexander Klink + 1 · Published 2011-12-30 · Updated 2021-01-12 · CVE-2011-4838

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions JRuby versions prior to 1.6.5.1

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table. This is due to the computation of hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.6.5.1, update to version 1.6.5.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4838

DLA-209-1

Affected Products

Jruby

References · 15

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4838 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1232.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4838 · Security Note
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-06.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://jruby.org/2011/12/27/jruby-1-6-5-1.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4838 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4838 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50084 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72019 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47407 · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.html · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/8437 · Telegram Post
• http://nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934 · Note