CVE-2018-9838

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9838
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-9838.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-9838
Aliases
Downstream
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Published
2018-04-06T18:29:00.207Z
Modified
2026-05-30T10:52:11.162485Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The camlbadeserialize 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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ocaml/ocaml

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
0d68080b95016f747b7cb63dd36ccdd42d40016e
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ocaml:ocaml:4.06.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.06.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.06.0
4.06.0+beta1
4.06.0+beta2
4.06.0+rc1
4.06.0beta2
Other
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Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-9838.json"