Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink reported a flaw in the hash function used in the implementation of Java classes as HashMap and Hashtable, see bug #750533. A specially-crafted set of keys could trigger hash function collisions, which degrade dictionary performance by changing hash table operations complexity from an expected/average O(1) to the worst case O(n). Reporters were able to find colliding strings efficiently using meet in the middle attack. A fix for this issue in jetty is available at: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-users/msg01818.html https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/commit/085c79d7d6cfbccc02821ffdb64968593df3e0bf Please note that for rhel-6 this flaw affects jetty-eclipse which is a "subset of fully[sic] jetty needed to run Eclipse." and as such is not likely to be used in production sites.
Created jetty tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 781678]
Confirmed the help system (which runs via jetty) listens to 0.0.0.0:random_port
(In reply to comment #3) > Confirmed the help system (which runs via jetty) listens to 0.0.0.0:random_port This info seems to miss an important bit of a context information and should say: the Eclipse help system
Created attachment 556318 [details] patch to correct the flaw in jetty-eclipse This patch will fix the flaw in jetty-eclipse 6.1.24.
jetty-6.1.26-8.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank oCERT for reporting this issue. oCERT acknowledges Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink as the original reporters.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Fuse ESB Enterprise 7.1.0 Via RHSA-2012:1604 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1604.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Fuse Management Console 7.1.0 Via RHSA-2012:1606 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1606.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Fuse MQ Enterprise 7.1.0 Via RHSA-2012:1605 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1605.html
The jetty-eclipse in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are included for use by the Eclipse help system. Due to this limited exposure and impact of this flaw, there is no plan to address this in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Statement: The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having Low security impact for the jetty-eclipse package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.