This host is installed with Oracle Java SE and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.

Successful exploitation allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service condition via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to Oracle Java SE version 7 Update 6 For updates refer to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

The flaw is due to computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably.

Oracle Java SE 7 to 7 Update 5

• http://armoredbarista.blogspot.de/2012/02/investigating-hashdos-issue.html
• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/83341
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934
• http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
• http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/17/1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750533

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Updated on 2015-03-25