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FreeBSD : OCaml -- Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (8d2af843-7d8e-11e9-8464-c85b76ce9b5a)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 125379

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

MITRE reports :

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.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fde72cd0

http://www.nessus.org/u?5f1da7b6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 125379

File Name: freebsd_pkg_8d2af8437d8e11e98464c85b76ce9b5a.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 5/24/2019

Updated: 5/21/2024

Supported Sensors: 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: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ocaml, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8869