CVE-2016-10253 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2016-10253

An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18.x. Erlang's generation of...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

erlang\/otp
Vulnerable Versions:
18.0, 18.0.1, 18.0.2, 18.0.3, 18.1, 18.1.1, 18.1.2, 18.1.3, 18.1.4, 18.1.5, 18.2, 18.2.1, 18.2.2, 18.2.3, 18.2.4, 18.2.4.1, 18.3, 18.3.1, 18.3.2, 18.3.3, 18.3.4, 18.3.4.1, 18.3.4.2, 18.3.4.3, 18.3.4.4, 18.3.4.5, 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 19.0.3, 19.0.4, 19.0.5, 19.0.6, 19.0.7, 19.1, 19.1.1, 19.1.2, 19.1.3, 19.1.4, 19.1.5, 19.1.6, 19.1.6.1, 19.2, 19.2.1, 19.2.2, 19.2.3, 19.2.3.1, 19.3, 19.3.1, 19.3.2, 19.3.3, 19.3.4, 19.3.5, 19.3.6, 19.3.6.1, 19.3.6.2, 19.3.6.3, 19.3.6.4, 19.3.6.5, 19.3.6.6, 19.3.6.7, 19.3.6.8, 19.3.6.9

Timeline

Official Publish: March 18th, 2017
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.