#2012-001 multiple implementations denial-of-service via MurmurHash algorithm
collision

Description:

A variety of programming languages suffer from a denial-of-service (DoS)
condition against storage functions of key/value pairs in hash data
structures, the condition can be leveraged by exploiting predictable
collisions in the underlying hashing algorithms.

The issue is similar to the one reported in oCERT-2011-003 and concerns the
MurmurHash algorithm family. The condition for predictable collisions in the
hashing functions has been reported for the following language
implementations: JRuby (MurmurHash2), Ruby (MurmurHash2), Rubinius
(MurmurHash3), Oracle JDK (MurmurHash), OpenJDK (MurmurHash). In the case of
Java OpenJDK the hash function affected by the reported issue is not enabled
by default, the default function is however reported vulnerable to
oCERT-2011-003.

Affected version:
Ruby < 1.9.3-p327
JRuby all versions
Rubinius, all versions
Oracle JDK <= 7
OpenJDK <= 7

Fixed version:
Ruby >= 1.9.3-p327
JRuby, N/A
Rubinius, N/A
Oracle JDK, N/A
OpenJDK, N/A

Credit: vulnerability report received from Jean-Philippe Aumasson
        <jeanphilippe.aumasson AT gmail.com>, PoC code and SipHash
  implementation used to patch the issue developed by Martin Bosslet
  <martin.bosslet AT gmail.com>.

CVE: CVE-2012-5370 (JRuby), CVE-2011-5371 (Ruby), CVE-2011-5372 (Rubinius),
     CVE-2011-5373 (Oracle JDK, OpenJDK)

Timeline:
2012-08-30: vulnerability report sent to Ruby, JRuby and Rubinius security contacts
2012-09-03: vulnerability report forwarded to oCERT by Hiroshi Nakamura (Ruby security contact)
2012-09-06: oCERT contacted reporters to investigate additional affected projects
2012-09-06: reporters indicate OpenJDK as vulnerable and that Java security team has been contacted on 2012-07-31
2012-09-10: oCERT requested CVE assignment for Ruby, JRuby and Rubinius
2012-09-12: Oracle JDK and OpenJDK confirmed vulnerable by reporters
2012-09-12: oCERT requested CVE assignment for Oracle JDK and OpenJDK
2012-10-10: reporters indicate public PoC release on 2012-11-07 at ASFWS
2012-11-08: assigned CVEs
2012-11-09: Ruby 1.9.3-p327 released
2012-11-23: advisory release

References:
https://www.131002.net/siphash

Permalink:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2012-001.html

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          oCERT | OSS Computer Security Incident Response Team

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