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Re: CVE request: java hashdos vulnerability


From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:35:37 -0600

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On 06/15/2012 03:13 PM, Hanno Böck wrote:
Hi,

Seems java is fixing HashDos finally: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-May/010238.html

 They don't mention hashdos, but the interesting part is here: "The
enhanced hashing implementation uses the murmur3 hashing 
algorithm[1] along with random hash seeds and index masks"

random hash seeds is what prevents hashdos.

Further info here: 
http://armoredbarista.blogspot.de/2012/02/investigating-hashdos-issue.html

 Please assign CVE.

cu,

Please use CVE-2012-2739 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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