Out-of-Bounds Affecting erlang package, versions <1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-ERLANG-293109
  • 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 Ubuntu:16.04 erlang to version 1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 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.