CVE-2018-9838

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    CVE-2018-9838

    Published: 6 Apr 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-48, https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7765

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0d68080b95016f747b7cb63dd36ccdd42d40016e
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.06.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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