Source: ocaml Version: 4.05.0-10 Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7765
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for ocaml. CVE-2018-9838[0]: | The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard | library in OCaml 4.06.0 has an integer overflow which, in situations | where marshalled data is accepted from an untrusted source, allows | remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or | possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted object. A solution is still beeing discussed upstream in [2]. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-9838 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-9838 [1] https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7765 [2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/1718 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
