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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-10253 json

An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18.x.

published 2017-03-18 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1438

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • erlang Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:19.2.1+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10253

  • erlang Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10253

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • erlang Package Hub 12 18.3.4.7-9.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2017:3255-1openSUSE-SU-2017:3257-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10253 updated cvss 4.4

erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) erlang Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) erlang Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) erlang, erlang-ssh, erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, erlang-edoc, erlang-erts, +33 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) erlang, erlang-ssh, erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, erlang-edoc, erlang-erts, +33 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) erlang, erlang-ic, erlang-ose, erlang-ssh, erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, +34 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) erlang, erlang-ic, erlang-ose, erlang-ssh, erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, +34 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) erlang Red Hat Storage Console 2 erlang
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) erlang, erlang-ic, erlang-ose, erlang-ssh, erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, +34 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.