High
Security advisory
OCaml compiler allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a similar issue to CVE-2017-9772 "but with much less impact."
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-9779
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 07:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
OCaml compiler allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a similar issue to CVE-2017-9772 "but with much less impact."
osv:CVE-2017-9779
Complete source record
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