Vulnerability CVE-2015-8869
Published: 2016-06-13

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.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Ocaml -> Ocaml 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2576.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0564.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/6
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89318
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/659615c7b100a89eafe6253e7a5b9d84d0e8df74#diff-a97df53e3ebc59bb457191b496c90762
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15
Copyright 2024, cxsecurity.com

 

Back to Top