CVE-2026-42792

A flaw was found in Erlang OTP's Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit an improper handling of exceptional conditions in the doaccept function. By exhausting connection slots through holding numerous TCP connections open and periodically sending data, the...

CVE-2026-42792 epmd permanent DoS via EMFILE on accept(2) in erts

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts epmd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd via connection slot exhaustion. The doaccept function in erts/epmd/src/epmdsrv.c calls epmdcleanupexit when accep...