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CVE-2026-49760EEF-CVE-2026-49760GHSA-XCXJ-5PG2-V72J

Stack Buffer Overflow in ei_s_print_term at Very Large Integer

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  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Erlang OTP (erl_interface) allows Stack-based Buffer Overflow. This vulnerability is associated with program file lib/erl_interface/src/misc/ei_printterm.c and program routine ei_s_print_term. The C function ei_s_print_term uses an internal 2000-character stack buffer to format terms. When called with an encoded Erlang term containing a very large integer (encoded representation exceeding 2000 characters), the buffer overflows. The overflow bytes are restricted to the ASCII values of 0-9 and A-F, which limits exploitation to Denial of Service. The companion function ei_print_term, which prints directly to a FILE instead of a memory buffer, does not contain this bug. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.13, OTP 28.5.0.2, and OTP 29.0.2, corresponding to erl_interface from 3.7.16 before 5.5.2.1, 5.7.0.1, and 5.8.1. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to erl_interface before 3.7.16, is affected is unknown.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • otp

    From 17.0 · fixed in *

  • erl_interface

    From 3.7.16 · fixed in *

  • erlang/otp

    From 84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1 · fixed in 0bef277b2d39dc8babb9ceb4f5d0a456f3007111

References 5

GitHub · erlang/otp

cna.erlef.org

osv.dev

erlang.org