Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2012-2739

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Oracle Java SE before 7 Update 6, and OpenJDK 7 before 7u6 build 12 and 8 before build 39, computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash...

CVE-2012-2739

CVE-2012-2739 affects Oracle Java SE prior to 7 Update 6 and OpenJDK 7 prior to 7u6 build 12, and OpenJDK 8 prior to build 39. The vulnerability stems from computing hash values without restricting hash collisions, enabling context-dependent attackers to cause CPU exhaustion (DoS) by crafting inp...