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Red Hat: RHSA-2016:1285-01 Critical: Python Security Update Issue

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2016
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A new patch for OCaml on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 resolves moderate-risk vulnerabilities, among which is a possible buffer overflow.
An update for ocaml is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

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):
* OCaml versions 4.02.3 and earlier have a runtime bug that, on 64-bit platforms, causes size arguments to internal memmove calls to be sign-extended from 32- to 64-bits before being passed to the memmove function. This leads to arguments between 2GiB and 4GiB being interpreted as larger than they are (specifically, a bit below 2^64), causing a buffer overflow. Further, arguments between 4GiB and 6GiB are interpreted as 4GiB smaller than they should be, causing a possible information leak. (CVE-2015-8869)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat buffer overflow moderate severity OCaml

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8869 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
Source: ocaml-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.src.rpm
x86_64: ocaml-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-camlp4-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-camlp4-devel-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-compiler-libs-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-debuginfo-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-docs-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-emacs-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-labltk-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-labltk-devel-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-ocamldoc-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-runtime-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-source-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-x11-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
Source: ocaml-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.src.rpm
x86_64: ocaml-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-camlp4-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-camlp4-devel-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-compiler-libs-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-debuginfo-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-docs-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-emacs-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-labltk-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-labltk-devel-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-ocamldoc-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-runtime-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ocaml-source-4.01.0-22.7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1296-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296
Issue date: 2016-06-23

Topic

An update for ocaml is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a securityimpact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) basescore, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for eachvulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat buffer overflow moderate severity OCaml

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1332090 - CVE-2015-8869 ocaml: sizes arguments are sign-extended from 32 to 64 bits

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