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Fedora 24: FEDORA-2016-1c4e616564 Critical: Ocaml Security Threat

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An update regarding safety for ocaml addresses CVE-2015-8869. Make sure your Fedora 24 machine is secured with the newest fix.
Security fix for CVE-2015-8869

Summary

OCaml is a high-level, strongly-typed, functional and object-oriented

programming language from the ML family of languages.

This package comprises two batch compilers (a fast bytecode compiler

and an optimizing native-code compiler), an interactive toplevel system,

parsing tools (Lex,Yacc), a replay debugger, a documentation generator,

and a comprehensive library.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-8869

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical threat security patch ocaml CVE-2015-8869

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1332090 - CVE-2015-8869 ocaml: sizes arguments are sign-extended from 32 to 64 bits https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332090

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ocaml' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: ocaml
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.02.3
Release: 3.fc24
URL: https://ocaml.org
Summary: OCaml compiler and programming environment

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical threat security patch ocaml CVE-2015-8869

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