CVE-2015-8869

Summary

CVECVE-2015-8869
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-06-13 19:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-30 16:27:00 UTC
DescriptionOCaml before 4.03.0 does not properly handle sign extensions, which allows remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks or obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by a long string to the String.copy function.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119 | CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 24 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 24 All All All
Application Ocaml Ocaml All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
OCaml: Buffer overflow and information disclosure (GLSA 201702-15) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Oracle Linux Bulletin - July 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
openSUSE-SU-2016:1335-1: moderate: Security update for ocaml SUSE lists.opensuse.org
oss-security - buffer overflow and information leak in OCaml < 4.03.0 MLIST www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: buffer overflow and information leak in OCaml < 4.03.0 MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: ocaml-4.02.3-3.fc24 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
fix PR#7003 and a few other bugs caused by misuse of Int_val · ocaml/ocaml@659615c · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
openSUSE-SU-2016:2273-1: moderate: Security update for ocaml SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
OCaml CVE-2015-8869 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710485 Gentoo Linux OCaml Buffer overflow and information disclosure Vulnerability (GLSA 201702-15)
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