Out-of-Bounds Affecting erlang package, versions <1:19.2.1+dfsg-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-ERLANG-293110
  • published18 Mar 2017
  • disclosed18 Mar 2017

Introduced: 18 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-10253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable erlang to version 1:19.2.1+dfsg-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream erlang package and not the erlang package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.