metadata/glsa/glsa-201702-15.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201702-15">
  <title>OCaml: Buffer overflow and information disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>A buffer overflow in OCaml might allow remote attackers to obtain
    sensitive information or crash an OCaml-based application.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ocaml</product>
  <announced>2017-02-20</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-02-20</revised>
  <bug>581946</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-lang/ocaml" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.04.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.04.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>OCaml is a high-level, strongly-typed, functional, and object-oriented
      programming language from the ML family of languages.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was discovered that OCaml was vulnerable to 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.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, able to interact with an OCaml-based application,
      could possibly obtain sensitive information or cause a Denial of Service
      condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All OCaml users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/ocam-4.04.0"
    </code>
    
    <p>Packages which depend on OCaml may need to be recompiled. Tools such as
      qdepends (included in app-portage/portage-utils) may assist in
      identifying these packages:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --oneshot --ask --verbose $(qdepends -CQ dev-lang/ocaml | sed
      's/^/=/')
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-8869">CVE-2015-8869</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-02-13T00:59:45Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-02-20T23:19:06Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>