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CVE-2016-10253
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-18T20:59:00.127 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:39:22.433

Summary

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.

Affected products

erlang — erlang\/otp

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