CVE-2026-28364

Affected: OCaml, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Hardened Images

In OCaml before 4.14.3 and 5.x before 5.4.1, a buffer over-read in Marshal deserialization (runtime/intern.c) enables remote code execution through a multi-phase attack chain. The vulnerability stems from missing bounds validation in the readblock() function, which performs unbounded memcpy() operations using attacker-controlled lengths from crafted Marshal data.

OSEC-2026-18 — Marshal integer overflow leads to out-of-heap read

Affected: opam: ocaml

An integer overflow in the length-validation logic of OCaml's Marshal deserializer allows a crafted serialized object to bypass all bounds checks added by the CVE-2026-28364 fix, producing **heap out-of-bounds reads** from `Marshal.from_bytes` / `Marshal.from_string` (and the C API `caml_input_value_from_block`).

## Root cause

`runtime/intern.c` validates declared data length against the input buffer with unsigned 64-bit addition that can wrap:

```c /* caml_input_val_from_bytes, intern.c:1038 */ if (ofs + h.header_len + h.data_len > caml_string_length(str)) caml_failwith("input_val_from_string: bad length"); ```

`h.data_len` is fully attacker-controlled (8-byte field read straight from the stream for `Intext_magic_number_big`). With `data_len >= 2^64 - (ofs + h.header_len)`, the sum wraps to a small value and the check passes.

The CVE-2026-28364 fix introduced:

```c /* intern.c:1043 (added by the fix) */ s->intern_src_end = s->intern_src + h.data_len; /* wraps to a pointer BEFORE the buffer */ ```

`intern_src_end` wraps to a location *before* `intern_src`, so every `intern_check_read()` bound added by the fix (`len > end - src` with a negative diff promoted to a huge `uintnat`) evaluates **false** for any realistic length. The parser (`intern_rec`) then honors attacker-controlled read lengths (`readblock` up to `Max_wosize` bytes) against memory far beyond the input buffer.

The OCaml-side wrapper validation in `stdlib/marshal.ml` is bypassed by the same wrap, via…

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