CVE-2018-9838

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.

Date published : 2018-04-06

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-48

https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7765