CentOS 7 : ocaml (CESA-2016:1296)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91788

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for ocaml is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

OCaml is a high-level, strongly-typed, functional, and object-oriented programming language from the ML family of languages. The ocaml packages contain two batch compilers (a fast bytecode compiler and an optimizing native-code compiler), an interactive top level system, parsing tools (Lex, Yacc, Camlp4), a replay debugger, a documentation generator, and a comprehensive library.

Security Fix(es) :

* OCaml versions 4.02.3 and earlier have a runtime bug that, on 64-bit platforms, causes size arguments to internal memmove calls to be sign-extended from 32- to 64-bits before being passed to the memmove function. This leads to arguments between 2GiB and 4GiB being interpreted as larger than they are (specifically, a bit below 2^64), causing a buffer overflow. Further, arguments between 4GiB and 6GiB are interpreted as 4GiB smaller than they should be, causing a possible information leak. (CVE-2015-8869)

Solution

Update the affected ocaml packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 91788

File Name: centos_RHSA-2016-1296.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 6/24/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment 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: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-compiler-libs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-ocamldoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-emacs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-source, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-camlp4-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-camlp4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-labltk-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-labltk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-x11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-runtime

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8869

RHSA: 2016:1296

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