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Ubuntu: USN-4778-1 (CVE-2015-8869): OCaml vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4778-1 (CVE-2015-8869): OCaml vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/03/2017
Modified
05/01/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ocaml
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ocaml-base
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ocaml-base-nox
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ocaml-mode
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ocaml-nox

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