PT-2016-4048 · Inria+5 · Ocaml+5

Radek Micek · Published 2016-04-29 · Updated 2021-03-15 · CVE-2015-8869

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.1

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OCaml versions prior to 4.03.0

Description The issue is related to improper handling of sign extensions, which can be exploited by remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks or obtain sensitive information. This can be demonstrated by passing a long string to the String.copy function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.03.0, update to version 4.03.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the input to the String.copy function to prevent buffer overflow attacks.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1482

CESA-2016_1296

CESA-2016_2576

CESA-2017_0564

CESA-2017_0565

CVE-2015-8869

DLA-466-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10222-1

OSEC-2016-01

RHSA-2016:1296

RHSA-2016:2576

RHSA-2016_1296

RHSA-2016_2576

RHSA-2017:0564

RHSA-2017:0565

RHSA-2017_0564

RHSA-2017_0565

SUSE-SU-2016:2192-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2194-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2192-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2194-1

USN-3437-1

USN-4778-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Ocaml

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 37

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2194-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-0564.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4778-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8869 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OSEC-2016-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-9838 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-0565.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2192-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8869 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3437-1 · Vendor Advisory