debian · CVE-2018-9838

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:46:17 GMT

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CVE-2018-9838 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ocaml), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard library in OCaml 4.06.0 has an integer overflow which, in situations where marshalled data is accepted from an untrusted source, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted object.

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