CVE-2016-10253 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in OTP

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow12 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
0.5%
top 33.45%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Erlang OTP
Timeline
PublishedMar 18
Latest updateMay 14

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianerlang/erlang_otp< 1:19.2.1+dfsg-2+3
▶Ubuntuerlang/erlang_otp< 1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2+1
▶NVDerlang/erlang_otp63 versions+62

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-9cqh-gh33-j3r9: An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18↗2022-05-14
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OSV
erlang vulnerabilities↗2018-02-14
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OSV
CVE-2016-10253: An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18↗2017-03-18
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CVEList
CVE-2016-10253: An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18↗2017-03-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Erlang vulnerabilities↗2018-02-14
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Red Hat
erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions↗2016-06-19
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Debian
CVE-2016-10253: erlang - An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18.x. Erlang's generation of compiled regu...↗2016
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10253 erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions [epel-6]↗2017-03-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10253 erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions [epel-7]↗2017-03-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10253 erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions↗2017-03-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10253 erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions [fedora-all]↗2017-03-20
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