CVE-2015-8869
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2016-04-28 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
OCaml before 4.03.0 does not properly handle sign extensions, whichallows remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks or obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by a long string to the String.copy function.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 4.4 |
| Vector String: | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (libguestfs) | ELSA-2017-0564 | 2017-03-27 |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (ocaml) | ELSA-2017-0565 | 2017-03-27 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (libguestfs) | ELSA-2016-2576 | 2016-11-09 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (ocaml) | ELSA-2016-1296 | 2016-06-23 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (ocaml) | OVMSA-2017-0049 | 2017-03-29 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (ocaml) | OVMSA-2017-0049 | 2017-03-29 |
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