CVE-2016-10253 | BDVDB-2026-82946 Detail

Description#

An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18.x. Erlang's generation of compiled regular expressions is vulnerable to a heap overflow. Regular expressions using a malformed extpattern can indirectly specify an offset that is used as an array index. This ordinal permits arbitrary regions within the erts_alloc arena to be both read and written to.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3571-1/
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1108

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-03-18Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.