Executive Summary

Summary
Title OCaml vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3437-1 First vendor Publication 2017-10-03
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-10-03
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

OCaml applications could be made to crash, expose sensitive information, or run programs.

Software Description: - ocaml: ML language implementation with a class-based object system

Details:

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.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
ocaml 4.01.0-3ubuntu3.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3437-1
CVE-2015-8869

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ocaml/4.01.0-3ubuntu3.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3437-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-200 Information Exposure
50 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-10-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3437-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-02 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1061.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-06 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170321_ocaml_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-06 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170321_libguestfs_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0049.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0565.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0564.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-27 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0565.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-27 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0564.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0565.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0564.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201702-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-15 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20161103_libguestfs_and_virt_p2v_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-28 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-2576.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-11 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2576.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-04 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2576.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-12 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1072.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-78ad11154f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-13 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20160623_ocaml_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-1296.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-24 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-1296.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-24 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-1296.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-20 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-605.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-466.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-1c4e616564.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-10-05 13:24:46
  • Multiple Updates
2017-10-04 00:23:15
  • First insertion