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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2576.html ↗
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/6 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0564.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89318 ↗
- https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/659615c7b100a89eafe6253e7a5b9d84d0e8df74#diff-a97df53e3ebc59bb457191b496c90762 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1 ↗