cve/2015/CVE-2015-8869.md

CVE-2015-8869

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/1
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example