CVE-2015-8869

CRITICAL

Fedora < 4.02.3 - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (13)

Core 13
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2576.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/6
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0564.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89318
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0377
EPSS Percentile 88.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-200
Status published
Products (3)
fedoraproject/fedora 24
ocaml/ocaml < 4.02.3
opensuse/opensuse 13.2
Published Jun 13, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026