vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-9838: ocaml -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 6, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard library in OCaml 4.06.0 has an integer overflow which, in situations where marshalled data is accepted from an untrusted source, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted object.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ocaml
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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