UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10253 (CVE-2016-10253)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2017-03-18 00:00 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:38 – Source website
VLAI
Details
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10253",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:38:06Z",
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