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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-13 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
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
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-10-19 00:00
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