Bug 1464920 (CVE-2017-9772) - CVE-2017-9772 ocaml: Insufficient sanitisation allows privilege escalation for setuid binaries
Summary: CVE-2017-9772 ocaml: Insufficient sanitisation allows privilege escalation fo...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-9772
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1464921
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-26 08:57 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:00 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: ocaml 4.04.2
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:15:38 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-06-26 08:57:44 UTC 
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.

External References:

https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2017-06/msg00094.html

Upstream issue:

https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7557
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-06-26 08:58:34 UTC 
Created ocaml tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-rawhide [bug 1464921]
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2017-06-26 09:16:32 UTC 
Affects Fedora 26 (OCaml 4.04.0) as well.
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