Critical severity · published Jun 13, 2016
CVE-2015-8869
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…
9.1
CVSS
5.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.3% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
24 · source: NVD
OC
Ocaml · Ocaml
through 4.02.3 · source: NVD
OP
Opensuse · Opensuse
13.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8869
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8869
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2576.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0564.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html
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