CVE-2016-10253

9.8 CRITICAL
Published: March 18, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026
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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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1108
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3571-1/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3571-1/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory

4 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
9.8 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
1.5%
71th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

erlang