CVE 6.9 MEDIUM

Stack Buffer Overflow in ei_s_print_term at Very Large Integer_CVE-2026-49760

6.9 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

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 27.3.4.13, 28.5.0.2 and 29.0.2, corresponding to erl_interface from 3.7.16 before 5.5.2.1, 5.7.0.1 and 5.8.1.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-49760
Source EEF
Published Jun 10, 2026 at 14:35
Modified Jun 10, 2026 at 16:16

Affected Product

Vendor Erlang
Product OTP
Version 3.7.16
Affected Versions Erlang OTP 3.7.16
Erlang OTP 17.0
Erlang OTP 84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1

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