VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-10253

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.48%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-03-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-119

Primary references