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Fedora 26 ocaml Privilege Escalation Advisory: Critical Update

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Fix: ocaml: Insufficient sanitisation allows privilege escalation for setuid binaries (CVE-2017-9772) (RHBZ#1464920).

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.

Fix: ocaml: Insufficient sanitisation allows privilege escalation for setuid

binaries (CVE-2017-9772) (RHBZ#1464920).

[ 1 ] Bug #1464920 - CVE-2017-9772 ocaml: Insufficient sanitisation allows privilege escalation for setuid binaries

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464920

su -c 'dnf upgrade ocaml' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 4.04.0
Release: 10.fc26
Summary: OCaml compiler and programming environment

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