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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 OTP 29.0.2, OTP 28.5.0.2 and OTP 27.3.4.13, corresponding to erl_interface from 3.7.16 before 5.8.1, 5.7.0.1 and 5.5.2.1.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-121
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Stack-based Buffer Overflow
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-8
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Buffer Overflow in an API Call
MITRE ↗
Affected — Erlang / erl_interface Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / erlang/otp Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Workarounds
References
GHSA-xcxj-5pg2-v72j ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-49760 ↗
related
Credits
CVSS breakdown
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