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CentOS 6 : ocaml (CESA-2017:0565)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 97950

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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 6.

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) :

* 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.

Solution

Update the affected ocaml packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7590355c

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 97950

File Name: centos_RHSA-2017-0565.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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-ocamldoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-emacs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-source, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ocaml-camlp4-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, 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: 3/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8869

RHSA: 2017:0565