{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5373","details":"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vulnerability than CVE-2012-2739.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:31:02.560475Z","published":"2012-11-28T13:03:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:42:47Z","upstream":["CVE-2012-5373"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5373"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.131002.net/data/talks/appsec12_slides.pdf"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880705"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2012-001.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://asfws12.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/asfws2012-jean_philippe_aumasson-martin_bosslet-hash_flooding_dos_reloaded.pdf"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://2012.appsec-forum.ch/conferences/#c17"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-May/010238.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.11/file/d9564350faa6/patches/security/20121016/7158800.patch"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8006593"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5373"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"openjdk-7","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/openjdk-7@7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"}]}],"versions":["7u25-2.3.12-4ubuntu3","7u25-2.3.12-4ubuntu5","7u45-2.4.3-3ubuntu1","7u45-2.4.3-3ubuntu2","7u45-2.4.3-4ubuntu1","7u45-2.4.3-4ubuntu2","7u51-2.4.4-1ubuntu1","7u51-2.4.5-1ubuntu1","7u51-2.4.6~pre1-1ubuntu2","7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"icedtea-7-jre-jamvm","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"},{"binary_name":"openjdk-7-dbg","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"},{"binary_name":"openjdk-7-demo","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"},{"binary_name":"openjdk-7-doc","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"},{"binary_name":"openjdk-7-jdk","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"},{"binary_name":"openjdk-7-jre","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"},{"binary_name":"openjdk-7-jre-headless","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"},{"binary_name":"openjdk-7-jre-lib","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"},{"binary_name":"openjdk-7-jre-zero","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"},{"binary_name":"openjdk-7-source","binary_version":"7u51-2.4.6-1ubuntu4"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2012/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5373.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}