Security Bulletin:Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Erlang OTP erts (epmd)

Summary 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 wh...

CVE-2026-75538

An attacker that connects to an open Erlang TCP port that uses the inet driver with packet,4 mode can use a signed overflow in an incorrect packet length calculation to overflow the receive buffer into the VM allocator area and beyond up to about 2 GB. This would easily trash the allocated block'...

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...

CVE-2026-54890

Integer Underflow Wrap or Wraparound vulnerability in erlang otp erlang/otp erts modules, erlang otp erts erts modules allows Forced Integer Overflow, Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files erts/emulator/beam/external.c, emulator/beam/external.c. The BITBINARYEX...

CVE-2026-54890

Integer Underflow Wrap or Wraparound vulnerability in erlang otp erlang/otp erts modules, erlang otp erts erts modules allows Forced Integer Overflow, Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files erts/emulator/beam/external.c, emulator/beam/external.c. The BITBINARYEX...

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...

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-2026-42792

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...

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...

CVE-2026-54890: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

Integer Underflow Wrap or Wraparound vulnerability in erlang otp erlang/otp erts modules, erlang otp erts erts modules allows Forced Integer Overflow, Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files erts/emulator/beam/external.c, emulator/beam/external.c. The BITBINARYEX...

CVE-2026-42792: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

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...

SUSE CVE-2026-49759

Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts inetdrv allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the BEAM VM by sending a crafted SCTP ERROR chunk. The sctpparseerrorchunk function in erts/emulator/drivers/common/inetdrv.c parses SCTP ERROR chunks and writes cause codes int...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-49759

Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts inetdrv allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the BEAM VM by sending a crafted SCTP ERROR chunk. The sctpparseerrorchunk function in erts/emulator/drivers/common/inetdrv.c parses SCTP ERROR chunks and writes cause codes int...

CVE-2026-49759

Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts inetdrv allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the BEAM VM by sending a crafted SCTP ERROR chunk. The sctpparseerrorchunk function in erts/emulator/drivers/common/inetdrv.c parses SCTP ERROR chunks and writes cause codes int...

CVE-2026-49759

Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts inetdrv allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the BEAM VM by sending a crafted SCTP ERROR chunk. The sctpparseerrorchunk function in erts/emulator/drivers/common/inetdrv.c parses SCTP ERROR chunks and writes cause codes int...

EUVD-2025-142518

Malicious code in butry-yust-erts npm...

Erlang/OTP (Erlang OTP) < 23.2.3 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Erlang/OTP Erlang OTP is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the erts component. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Erlang/OTP (Erlang OTP) Buffer Read Overflow Vulnerability (Sep 2025) - Linux

Erlang/OTP Erlang OTP is prone to a buffer read overflow vulnerability in the erts component. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only C...

Erlang/OTP (Erlang OTP) Buffer Read Overflow Vulnerability (Sep 2025) - Windows

Erlang/OTP Erlang OTP is prone to a buffer read overflow vulnerability in the erts component. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only C...

PT-2017-7832

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Erlang/OTP versions 18.x Description The issue is related to the generation of compiled regular expressions in Erlang, which can lead to a heap overflow. Specifically, regular expressions using a malformed extpattern can indirectly specify an...