CVE-2011-4119

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

caml-light <= 0.75 uses mktemp() insecurely, and also does unsafe things in /tmp during make install.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-377

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	caml-light	caml-light <= 0.75

References

http://gnats.netbsd.org/45558Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/249Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/9dde9dac-08f4-11e1-af36-003067b2972c.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://gnats.netbsd.org/45558Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/249Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/9dde9dac-08f4-11e1-af36-003067b2972c.htmlThird Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 26, 2021
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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