CVE-2026-55737

Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error and Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts allows an attacker who can supply a crafted Erlang external term format ETF binary to binarytoterm/1 to corrupt the BEAM heap pointer and crash the virtual machine. When decoding a LARGETUPLEEXT term, the...

EEF-CVE-2026-55737 Heap pointer corruption via signed/unsigned mismatch in LARGE_TUPLE_EXT decoding in erts external term format decoder

Summary Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error and Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts allows an attacker who can supply a crafted Erlang external term format ETF binary to binary\to\term/1 to corrupt the BEAM heap pointer and crash the virtual machine. When decoding a LARGE\TUPLE\E...

EUVD-2026-49321

Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error and Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts allows an attacker who can supply a crafted Erlang external term format ETF binary to binarytoterm/1 to corrupt the BEAM heap pointer and crash the virtual machine. When decoding a LARGETUPLEEXT term, the...

CVE-2026-55737 Heap pointer corruption via signed/unsigned mismatch in LARGE_TUPLE_EXT decoding in erts external term format decoder

Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error and Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts allows an attacker who can supply a crafted Erlang external term format ETF binary to binarytoterm/1 to corrupt the BEAM heap pointer and crash the virtual machine. When decoding a LARGETUPLEEXT term, the...

CVE-2026-55737 Heap pointer corruption via signed/unsigned mismatch in LARGE_TUPLE_EXT decoding in erts external term format decoder

Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error and Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts allows an attacker who can supply a crafted Erlang external term format ETF binary to binarytoterm/1 to corrupt the BEAM heap pointer and crash the virtual machine. When decoding a LARGETUPLEEXT term, the...

CVE-2026-55737

The CVE-2026-55737 issue is a heap-pointer corruption in Erlang/OTP’s erts external term format decoder. During LARGE_TUPLE_EXT decoding, the arity is read as unsigned in the validation pass but as signed in the decode pass, allowing 0x80000000 to produce -2147483648 and advancing the heap pointe...

Erlang/OTP -- binary_to_term crash on crafted BIT_BINARY_EXT input

https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-54pw-5645-jh86 reports: A specially crafted External Term Format ETF payload of merely 7 bytes triggers a crash in the BEAM virtual machine when processed by binarytoterm/1,2. The BITBINARYEXT tag with specific parameters causes an unsigned...

CVE-2026-55737: Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error

Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error and Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts allows an attacker who can supply a crafted Erlang external term format ETF binary to binarytoterm/1 to corrupt the BEAM heap pointer and crash the virtual machine. When decoding a LARGETUPLEEXT term, the...

PT-2026-64993

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions erlang otp versions 27.0 through 27.3.4.14 erlang otp version 28.5.0.3 erlang otp versions 29.0 through 29.0.3 erts versions 15.0 through 15.2.7.10 erts version 16.4.0.3 erts versions 17.0 through 17.0.3 Description An integer underflow exists...

Erlang/OTP -- heap corruption decoding invalidly encoded large tuples

The Erlang/OTP team reports: Fixed heap corruption when an invalidly encoded tuple with an arity of 2^31 or larger is decoded from Erlang's External Term Format binarytoterm...