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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202007-48">
+ <title>OCaml: Arbitrary code execution</title>
+ <synopsis>An integer overflow was discovered in OCaml's standard library,
+ possibly allowing arbitrary execution of code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">ocaml</product>
+ <announced>2020-07-27</announced>
+ <revised count="2">2020-07-27</revised>
+ <bug>719134</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-lang/ocaml" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.09.0</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.09.0</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>OCaml is a high-level, strongly-typed, functional, and object-oriented
+ programming language from the ML family of languages
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard
+ library of OCaml has an integer overflow.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
+ privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All OCaml users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/ocaml-4.09.0"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9838">CVE-2018-9838</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-07-26T15:40:49Z">sam_c</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-07-27T01:25:07Z">sam_c</metadata>
+</glsa>