Upstream information
Description
Ruby (aka CRuby) before 1.8.7-p357 computes hash values without 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.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 739122 SUSE Security Advisories:- openSUSE-SU-2012:0228-1, published Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:10:36 +0100 (CET)
