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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade erlang | Jul 30, 2024 | Mar 18, 2017 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade runtime/erlang/documentation to version 19.3-0.175.3.23.0.1.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade runtime/erlang to version 19.3-0.175.3.23.0.1.0 on Solaris 11.3 | Sep 19, 2017 | Mar 18, 2017 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade erlang-et-srcUpgrade erlang-diameterUpgrade erlang-gsUpgrade erlang-dialyzerUpgrade erlang-etUpgrade erlang-docUpgrade erlang-dialyzer-srcUpgrade erlang-jinterfaceUpgrade erlang-jinterface-srcUpgrade erlang-epmdUpgrade erlang-observerUpgrade erlang-diameter-srcUpgrade erlang-wxUpgrade erlang-reltool-srcUpgrade erlang-wx-srcUpgrade erlangUpgrade erlang-debuggerUpgrade erlang-gs-srcUpgrade erlang-reltoolUpgrade erlang-observer-srcUpgrade erlang-debugger-srcUpgrade erlang-src | Dec 8, 2017 | Mar 18, 2017 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade erlang | Feb 15, 2018 | Mar 18, 2017 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 18, 2017 |
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