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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10253

An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18.x. Erlang's generation of compiled regular expressions is vulnerable to a heap overflow. Regular expressions...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 erlang

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:19.2.1+dfsg-2"}]}]

Debian:13 erlang

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:19.2.1+dfsg-2"}]}]

Debian:14 erlang

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:19.2.1+dfsg-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org