USN-3437-1: OCaml vulnerability

3 October 2017

OCaml applications could be made to crash, expose sensitive information, or run programs.

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Releases

Packages

  • ocaml - ML language implementation with a class-based object system

Details

Radek Micek discovered that OCaml incorrectly handled sign extensions. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using OCaml to
crash, to possibly obtain sensitive information, or to possibly execute
arbitrary code.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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