CVE-2012-0841: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

December 21, 2012 (updated January 28, 2014)

libxml2 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 XML data.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0841

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