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MiracleLinux 4 : ocaml-3.11.2-5.AXS4 (AXSA:2017-1539:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 290008

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2017-1539:01 advisory.

 Objective Caml is a high-level, strongly-typed, functional and object-oriented programming language from the ML family of languages.
 This package comprises two batch compilers (a fast bytecode compiler and an optimizing native-code compiler), an interactive toplevel system, parsing tools (Lex,Yacc,Camlp4), a replay debugger, a documentation generator, and a comprehensive library.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2015-8869 OCaml before 4.03.0 does not properly handle sign extensions, which allows remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks or obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by a long string to the String.copy function.
 Additional Changes:

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/7971

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 290008

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2017-1539.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8869

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-source, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-ocamldoc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-labltk-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-emacs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-labltk, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-camlp4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-runtime, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-camlp4-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-x11, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ocaml-docs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8869