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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OCaml vulnerability (USN-3437-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 103662

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3437-1 advisory.

 Radek Micek discovered that OCaml incorrectly handled sign extensions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using OCaml to crash, to possibly obtain sensitive information, or to possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3437-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 103662

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3437-1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/4/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8869

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocaml-native-compilers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocaml-mode, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocaml-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocaml, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocaml-nox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocaml-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocaml-interp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:camlp4-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:camlp4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocaml-compiler-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocaml-base-nox

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8869

USN: 3437-1