Bug 1433985 (CVE-2016-10253) - CVE-2016-10253 erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions
Summary: CVE-2016-10253 erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-10253
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1433989 1433986 1433988 1467165
Blocks: 1433990
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Reported: 2017-03-20 13:51 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:09:15 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-03-20 13:51:35 UTC 
An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 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. 

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https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1108
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-03-20 13:55:58 UTC 
Created erlang tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1433986]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1433988]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1433989]
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