CVE-2015-8869 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Reference

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/659615c7b100a89eafe6253e7a5b9d84d0e8df74diff-a97df53e3ebc59bb457191b496c90762 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.1