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FKIE_CVE-2015-8869

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-13 19:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:35
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2576.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0564.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/6
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89318
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/659615c7b100a89eafe6253e7a5b9d84d0e8df74#diff-a97df53e3ebc59bb457191b496c90762
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2576.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0564.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89318
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/659615c7b100a89eafe6253e7a5b9d84d0e8df74#diff-a97df53e3ebc59bb457191b496c90762
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedoraproject fedora 24
opensuse opensuse 13.2
ocaml ocaml *

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