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SUSE: CVE-2015-8869: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2015-8869: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/13/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

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(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ocaml
  • suse-upgrade-ocaml-compiler-libs
  • suse-upgrade-ocaml-compiler-libs-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ocaml-ocamldoc
  • suse-upgrade-ocaml-rpm-macros
  • suse-upgrade-ocaml-runtime

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:2192-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2194-1
  • RHSA-2016:1296
  • RHSA-2016:2576
  • RHSA-2017:0564
  • RHSA-2017:0565
  • 89318
  • GLSA-201702-15
  • DLA-466-1
  • USN-3437-1
  • CVE-2015-8869
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