CVE-2015-8869
CRITICAL9.1EPSS 3.8%ocaml - security update
Published: 6/13/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8869
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 packages (2)
- Debian/ocamlfrom 0, < 4.02.3-9
- Debian/ocamlfrom 0, < 3.12.1-4+deb7u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |