UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10253

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10253

    Published: 18 Mar 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-10253
    Aliases:
    USN-3571-1

    Summary:

    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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10253, https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1108, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3571-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10253

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: erlang

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/erlang@1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1

    Affected versions

    1:18.0-dfsg-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High