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.
Published: 2017-03-18
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-1438 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3571-1 Erlang vulnerabilities
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00427}

epss

{'score': 0.00513}


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Erlang Erlang\/otp
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:14:42.816Z

Reserved: 2017-03-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-10253

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-18T20:59:00.127

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-10253

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-06-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-10253 - Bugzilla

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