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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="202007-48">
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<title>OCaml: Arbitrary code execution</title>
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<synopsis>An integer overflow was discovered in OCaml's standard library,
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possibly allowing arbitrary execution of code.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">ocaml</product>
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<announced>2020-07-27</announced>
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<revised count="2">2020-07-27</revised>
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<bug>719134</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="dev-lang/ocaml" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">4.09.0</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">4.09.0</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>OCaml is a high-level, strongly-typed, functional, and object-oriented
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programming language from the ML family of languages
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard
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library of OCaml has an integer overflow.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
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privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All OCaml users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ocaml-4.09.0"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9838">CVE-2018-9838</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-07-26T15:40:49Z">sam_c</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-07-27T01:25:07Z">sam_c</metadata>
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</glsa>
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