CVE-2016-10253 Memory corruption in n/a
Heap overflow in Erlang/OTP regex compilation allows arbitrary memory read and write, potentially leading to code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-10253?
CVE-2016-10253 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Mar 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10253?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Erlang Erlang\/Otp.
How do I fix CVE-2016-10253?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2016-10253 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10253 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10253, GHSA-9cqh-gh33-j3r9, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10253.