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.
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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 |
USN-3571-1 | Erlang vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T03:14:42.816Z
Reserved: 2017-03-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-10253
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-03-18T20:59:00.127
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2016-10253
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