UBUNTU-CVE-2011-5037

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UBUNTU-CVE-2011-5037

Summary:

Details: Google V8 computes hash values for form parameters without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted parameters, as demonstrated by attacks against Node.js.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-5037, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934, http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html, http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-5037