vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-8869: OCaml: Buffer overflow and information disclosure

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 13, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-ocaml
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