CVE-2017-9772

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    CVE-2017-9772

    Published: 23 Jun 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Insufficient sanitisation in the OCaml compiler versions 4.04.0 and 4.04.1 allows external code to be executed with raised privilege in binaries marked as setuid, by setting the CAML_CPLUGINS, CAML_NATIVE_CPLUGINS, or CAML_BYTE_CPLUGINS environment variable.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99277, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-07, https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7557, https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2017-06/msg00094.html

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 5d0f1bf69829d8d276402e29d0944fe2fc8e81c7
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.04.0
    4.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High