Security Advisory

CVE-2018-9838

9.8
CRITICAL

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date April 6, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory