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-2026-42792

CVE-2026-42792 (epmd DoS) : The mis-handling of EMFILE/ENFILE in erts/epmd/src/epmd_srv.c allows unauthenticated remote attackers to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon (epmd) by exhausting per-process/system file descriptor slots. The do_accept path calls epmd_cleanup_exit() on t...

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

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 do\accept function in erts/epmd/src/epmd\srv.c calls epmd\cleanup\exi...

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...