What is CVE-2016-10253?

CVE-2016-10253 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Erlang Erlang\/otp, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-03-18.

How severe is CVE-2016-10253?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Erlang Erlang\/otp

CVE-2016-10253

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.015 (71.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Erlang Erlang\/otp — versions 18.0, 18.0.1, 18.0.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10253?: CVE-2016-10253 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Erlang Erlang\/otp, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-03-18.
How severe is CVE-2016-10253?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.