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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-9772: OCaml: Privilege escalation

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-9772: OCaml: Privilege escalation

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-ocaml

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