CVE-2015-8869
Estado: ModificadaCrítica (9.1)—
OCaml before 4.03.0 does not properly handle sign extensions, which allows remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks or obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by a long string to the String.copy function.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.0
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 9.1
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 5.27%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 92
- Fecha de la puntuación: 2/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (3)
CWE
- CWE-119, CWE-200
Referencias
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2576.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0564.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/6
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89318
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296
- https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/659615c7b100a89eafe6253e7a5b9d84d0e8df74#diff-a97df53e3ebc59bb457191b496c90762
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184507.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00081.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00037.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2576.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0564.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0565.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/6
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89318
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296
- https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/659615c7b100a89eafe6253e7a5b9d84d0e8df74#diff-a97df53e3ebc59bb457191b496c90762
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-15
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