Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-0839

Title: Inria Ocaml Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-0839.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Feb 08, 2012
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.75%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-0839: OCaml 3.12.1 and earlier 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 input to an application that maintains a hash table.

Impacted Vendors

I
inria 1
O
ocaml 1

Reference Links

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/2 http://secunia.com/advisories/47853 http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01477.html http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01478.html http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/2 http://secunia.com/advisories/47853 http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01477.html http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01478.html http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-0839 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.