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fuse-esb: denial of service

fuse-esb: denial of service

Posted Jan 4, 2013 9:49 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
Parent article: fuse-esb: denial of service

They have replaced Murmurhash (which is known to have collision vulnerabilities) with 'the Perl hash function'. But Perl is moving away from its current hashing to use SipHash instead, at least on 64-bit platforms. The existing Perl hash function ('natatime') is believed to be better than Murmurhash, but not ideal.


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