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CVE-2015-8869

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 24
• OCaml: through 4.02.3
• Opensuse: 13.2

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2576.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0564.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/6
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89318
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296
• https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/659615c7b100a89eafe6253e7a5b9d84d0e8df74#diff-a97df53e3ebc59bb457191b496c90762

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