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SUSE-SU-2016:2192-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2016-08-30 13:13 - Updated: 2016-08-30 13:13

Summary

Security update for ocaml

Severity

Moderate

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update for ocaml

Description of the patch: This update for ocaml fixes the following issue: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2015-8869: Prevent buffer overflow and information leak. (bsc#977990)

Patchnames: sdksp4-ocaml-12721

CVE-2015-8869

9.1 (Critical)


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

Affected products

Recommended 15 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-4.02.1-3.4.i586	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-4.02.1-3.4.ia64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-4.02.1-3.4.ppc64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-4.02.1-3.4.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-4.02.1-3.4.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-compiler-libs-4.02.1-3.4.i586	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-compiler-libs-4.02.1-3.4.ia64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-compiler-libs-4.02.1-3.4.ppc64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-compiler-libs-4.02.1-3.4.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-compiler-libs-4.02.1-3.4.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-runtime-4.02.1-3.4.i586	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-runtime-4.02.1-3.4.ia64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-runtime-4.02.1-3.4.ppc64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-runtime-4.02.1-3.4.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:ocaml-runtime-4.02.1-3.4.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact low

References

8 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/s…	self
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/…	self
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-upd…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/977990	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8869/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8869	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/977990	external

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CVE-2015-8869 (GCVE-0-2015-8869)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-13 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/6	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89318	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/659615c7b10…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2015-10-19 00:00

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