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TITLE:
OCaml Hash Collision Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47853

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-02-07

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within certain hash
functions and can be exploited to cause a hash collision resulting in
high CPU consumption.

The vulnerability is reported in version 3.12.1. Other version may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Currently there is no known workaround.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Gerd Stolpmann via a mailing list entry.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list@inria.fr/msg01477.html

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