Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-6051 to the following vulnerability: Google CityHash 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 a hash table, as demonstrated by a universal multicollision attack. References: [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6051 [2] http://2012.appsec-forum.ch/conferences/#c17 [3] http://asfws12.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/asfws2012-jean_philippe_aumasson-martin_bosslet-hash_flooding_dos_reloaded.pdf [4] http://code.google.com/p/cityhash/source/browse/trunk/NEWS [5] https://www.131002.net/data/talks/appsec12_slides.pdf oCERT advisory: [6] http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2012-001.html
Statement: Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of xulrunner, firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.