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TITLE:
Plone Web Form Hash Collision Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47406

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-12-29

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Plone, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within a hash generation
function when hashing form posts and updating a hash table. This can
be exploited to cause a hash collision resulting in high CPU
consumption via a specially crafted form sent in a HTTP POST
request.

The vulnerability is reported in version 4.1.3 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Currently there is no known workaround.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Alexander Klink, n.runs AG and Julian Wälde, Technische Universität
Darmstadt

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
n.runs (SA-2011.004):
http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf

oCERT (#2011-003):
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html

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