PT-2017-7832 · Erlang+2 · Erlang/Otp+2

Published 2017-03-18 · Updated 2018-07-11 · CVE-2016-10253

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Erlang/OTP versions 18.x

Description The issue is related to the generation of compiled regular expressions in Erlang, which can lead to a heap overflow. Specifically, regular expressions using a malformed extpattern can indirectly specify an offset used as an array index, allowing arbitrary regions within the erts alloc arena to be read and written to.

Recommendations For Erlang/OTP version 18.x, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2709

CVE-2016-10253

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:3255-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:3257-1

USN-3571-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Erlang/Otp

Ubuntu

References · 19

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2774 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10253 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2017:3257-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10253 · Security Note
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3571-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000385 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2017:3255-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1693 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3571-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3571-1 · Vendor Advisory