Source: glib2.0 Severity: important Tags: security The standard hashing functions provided with the ghashtable implementation in glib are vulnerable to the algorithmic complexity attacks described in oCert-2011-003
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html This was reported upstream in 2003 when Perl fixed their hashing implementation by introducing a random hash seed. The upstream discussion is archived here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-May/msg00111.html -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
