Mageia: 2020-0456 High: Rust Memory Corruption Vulnerability
mageia
April 5, 2019
The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard library in OCaml 4.06.0 has an integer overflow which, in situations where marshalled data is accepted from a...
Summary
The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard
library in OCaml 4.06.0 has an integer overflow which, in situations where
marshalled data is accepted from an untrusted source, allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly
execute arbitrary code via a crafted object. (CVE-2018-9838)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22948
- - https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1088591
- - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9838
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/ocaml-4.02.3-6.1.mga6
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Publication date: 05 Apr 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0124.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-9838
Topics Covered
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