[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#858313: erlang: CVE-2016-10253

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: erlang
Version: 1:19.2.1+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1108

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for erlang.

CVE-2016-10253[0]:
| 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10253
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10253

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore