CVEs-PoC/2012/CVE-2012-0839.md

CVE-2012-0839

Description

OCaml 3.12.1 and earlier 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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example