CVE-2015-8869 (GCVE-0-2015-8869)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-13 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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