CVE-2016-10253
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.27%
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-10253
To remediate CVE-2016-10253, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1:19.2.1+dfsg-2 or later
Is CVE-2016-10253 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1:19.2.1+dfsg-2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |