suse · CVE-2018-9838

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 14:12:25 UTC Updated: 2025-08-14 02:37:19 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-9838 severity important: SUSE including 35 source package names (ocaml, ocaml-4.02.1-4.6.1, …), 107 product×package rows across 26 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, … (26 product lines)): Fixed 62, Known Not Affected 45.

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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