RHEL 6 : ocaml (RHSA-2017:0565)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 97873

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for ocaml.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0565 advisory.

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):

* An integer conversion flaw was found in the way OCaml's String handled its length. Certain operations on an excessively long String could trigger a buffer overflow or result in an information leak.
(CVE-2015-8869)

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL ocaml package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:0565.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 97873

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-0565.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/22/2017

Updated: 4/15/2025

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-emacs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-labltk, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-source, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-labltk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-camlp4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-ocamldoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-camlp4-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-docs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8869

CWE: 194

RHSA: 2017:0565

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