Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting erlang-os_mon package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-ERLANGOSMON-5013709
  • published27 Mar 2023
  • disclosed19 Jun 2016

Introduced: 19 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-10253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 erlang-os_mon.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream erlang-os_mon package and not the erlang-os_mon package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.