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
Published · last modified .
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.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.015 (72.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 72.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Erlang Erlang\/otp — versions 18.0, 18.0.1, 18.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- usn.ubuntu.com/3571-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1108 (Third Party Advisory)
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.