CVE-2017-11499

Node.js vulnerability CVE-2017-11499 affects multiple mainline Node.js releases (Node.js v4.x through v8.1.x) where a non-randomized hash seed was embedded due to V8 snapshot handling, enabling hash-collision based Denial of Service through crafted inputs. Public details in the initial CVE descri...

CVE-2017-11499

Node.js v4.0 through v4.8.3, all versions of v5.x, v6.0 through v6.11.0, v7.0 through v7.10.0, and v8.0 through v8.1.3 was susceptible to hash flooding remote DoS attacks as the HashTable seed was constant across a given released version of Node.js. This was a result of building with V8 snapshots...

FreeBSD : node.js -- multiple vulnerabilities (3eff66c5-66c9-11e7-aa1d-3d2e663cef42)

Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines as well as the 7.x line. These include the fix for the high severity vulnerability identified in the initial announcement, one additional lower priority Node.js vulnerability in the 4.x release line, as well as some lower priority fix...

[slackware-security] ruby

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ruby-1.9.3p327-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a hash-flooding DoS vulnerability and many other bugs. Fo...

CVE-2012-5371 ruby: Murmur hash-flooding DoS flaw in ruby 1.9 (oCERT-2012-001)

Ruby aka CRuby 1.9 before 1.9.3-p327 and 2.0 before r37575 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...

FreeBSD : ruby -- Hash-flooding DoS vulnerability for ruby 1.9 (5e647ca3-2aea-11e2-b745-001fd0af1a4c)

The official ruby site reports : Carefully crafted sequence of strings can cause a denial of service attack on the service that parses the sequence to create a Hash object by using the strings as keys. For instance, this vulnerability affects web application that parses the JSON data sent from...

ruby -- Hash-flooding DoS vulnerability for ruby 1.9

The official ruby site reports: Carefully crafted sequence of strings can cause a denial of service attack on the service that parses the sequence to create a Hash object by using the strings as keys. For instance, this vulnerability affects web application that parses the JSON data sent from...