ubuntu-cve-2016-10253
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-03-18 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:38
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18.x. Erlang\u0027s 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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10253",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:38:06Z",
  "published": "2017-03-18T00:00:00Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10253"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1108"
    },
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    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10253"
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  ],
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      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2016-10253"
  ]
}



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