Fedora 45 ocaml-yaml Critical RCE Buffer Overflow Vuln 2026

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This is an OCaml library to parse and generate the YAML file format. It is

intended to be interoperable with the Ezjsonm [1] JSON handling library, if

the simple common subset of Yaml is used. Anchors and other advanced Yaml

features are not implemented in the JSON compatibility layer.

[1]

This is a mass rebuild of the OCaml ecosystem with OCaml 5.5.1, which fixes two security bugs. See for details. In addition, rocq has been updated to version 9.3.0, which also fixes several CVEs. New upstream development version 1.61.4 New upstream development version 2.13.7

* Wed Sep 16 2026 Richard W.M. Jones - 3.2.0-33 - OCaml 5.5.1 rebuild

* Wed Sep 16 2026 Richard W.M. Jones - 3.2.0-33 - OCaml 5.5.1 rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #2443780 - CVE-2026-28364 ocaml: OCaml: Remote code execution via buffer over-read in Marshal deserialization [fedora-all] [ 2 ] Bug #2520289 - rocq-stdlib-9.2.0 is available [ 3 ] Bug #2523138 - CVE-2020-37268 rocq: Coq and Rocq Provers: Logical inconsistency bypass via Print Assumptions omission [fedora-all] [ 4 ] Bug #2523145 - CVE-2026-72703 rocq: Rocq Prover: Logical Flaw Allows Arbitrary Proof Generation via Unchecked Cross-Calls [fedora-all] [ 5 ] Bug #2523146 - CVE-2026-72705 rocq: Rocq Prover: Logical inconsistency via untracked higher-order fixpoint arguments [fedora-all] [ 6 ] Bug #2523147 - CVE-2026-72714 rocq: Rocq Prover: Critical integrity by...

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-403bcf6fd8' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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