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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2019.1869
                OCaml -- Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
                                24 May 2019

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           OCaml
Publisher:         FreeBSD
Operating System:  FreeBSD
Impact/Access:     Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Existing Account
                   Denial of Service               -- Existing Account
                   Access Confidential Data        -- Existing Account
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2015-8869  

Reference:         ESB-2017.2494
                   ESB-2017.0745

Original Bulletin: 
   http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/8d2af843-7d8e-11e9-8464-c85b76ce9b5a.html

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OCaml -- Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

Affected packages
ocaml 	< 	4.03.0

Details

VuXML ID 	8d2af843-7d8e-11e9-8464-c85b76ce9b5a
Discovery 	2016-06-13
Entry 	2019-05-23

MITRE reports:

    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.
    [source]

References
URL 	https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/659615c7b100a89eafe6253e7a5b9d84d0e8df74#diff-a97df53e3ebc59bb457191b496c90762
URL 	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8869

Copyright 2003-2005 Jacques Vidrine and contributors.
Please see the source of this document for full copyright information.

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