CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-9772

Published: Jun 23, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
10 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ocaml Ocaml 4.04.0 (including) 4.04.0 (including)
Ocaml Ocaml 4.04.1 (including) 4.04.1 (including)
Ocaml Ubuntu artful *
Ocaml Ubuntu upstream *
Ocaml Ubuntu yakkety *

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