vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2015-8869: Moderate: libguestfs security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 13, 2016
Added
Jul 22, 2016
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

OCaml 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.

Solutions

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