Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 18, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2016-10253
CVE-2016-10253
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.
Affected products
67cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 66 more
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:18.3.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:19.3.6.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
2- github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1108nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3571-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
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