Heap Overflow Vulnerability in Erlang/OTP 18.x
CVE-2016-10253

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor

Erlang

Status
Erlang\/otp
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 March 2017

What is CVE-2016-10253?

A vulnerability was identified within Erlang/OTP 18.x where the generation of compiled regular expressions can lead to a heap overflow. This occurs when using a malformed extpattern, which can indirectly define an offset used as an array index. Consequently, this flaw allows unauthorized access to arbitrary regions of the erts_alloc arena for both reading and writing operations, posing a serious security risk.

References

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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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