Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8869

Title: Ocaml Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8869.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Jun 13, 2016
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.1 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
5.27%

Vulnerability Summary

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 long string to the String.copy function.

Impacted Vendors

I
inria 1
O
ocaml 1

Reference Links

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 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15 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 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.4
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-8869 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.