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ocaml security update

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:1296

OCaml is a high-level, strongly-typed, functional, and object-oriented
programming language from the ML family of languages. The ocaml packages
contain two batch compilers (a fast bytecode compiler and an optimizing
native-code compiler), an interactive top level system, parsing tools
(Lex, Yacc, Camlp4), a replay debugger, a documentation generator, and
a comprehensive library.

Security Fix(es):

  • OCaml versions 4.02.3 and earlier have a runtime bug that, on 64-bit
    platforms, causes size arguments to internal memmove calls to be
    sign-extended from 32- to 64-bits before being passed to the memmove
    function. This leads to arguments between 2GiB and 4GiB being interpreted
    as larger than they are (specifically, a bit below 2^64), causing a
    buffer overflow. Further, arguments between 4GiB and 6GiB are interpreted
    as 4GiB smaller than they should be, causing a possible information
    leak. (CVE-2015-8869)

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-June/084095.html

Affected packages:
ocaml
ocaml-camlp4
ocaml-camlp4-devel
ocaml-compiler-libs
ocaml-docs
ocaml-emacs
ocaml-labltk
ocaml-labltk-devel
ocaml-ocamldoc
ocaml-runtime
ocaml-source
ocaml-x11

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1296