DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54890

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-54890
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54890.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54890
Upstream
Published
2026-07-27T16:17:41Z
Modified
2026-09-14T17:03:19Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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 BIT_BINARY_EXT tag (77) handler in the External Term Format (ETF) decoder accepts an encoding with both length and trailing-bits fields set to zero. The subsequent computation of the bitstring size underflows an unsigned integer, producing a value of roughly 2^64 that is then passed as a memory allocation size. The allocator aborts the entire node with a message such as "Cannot allocate 2305843009213693951 bytes of memory (of type binary)". The crash is a VM-level abort, not an Erlang-level exception. It cannot be intercepted by supervision trees, by try/catch, or by passing the [safe] option to binary_to_term/2 (which only restricts atom creation and does not perform structural validation of binary encodings). Any application that decodes ETF from untrusted sources via binary_to_term/1,2 or enif_binary_to_term() is exposed. The Erlang distribution protocol also decodes incoming terms through the same code path, but distribution is expected to run on trusted networks per the OTP Secure Coding Guidelines (DSG-011). This issue affects OTP from OTP 27.0 before OTP 29.0.4, OTP 28.5.0.4 and OTP 27.3.4.15, corresponding to erts from 15.0 before 17.0.4, 16.4.0.4 and 15.2.7.11.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / erlang

Package

Name
erlang
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:25.*
1:25.2.3+dfsg-1
1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u1
1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u2
1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u3
1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u4
1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1
1:25.3.2.10+dfsg-1
1:25.3.2.10+dfsg-2
1:25.3.2.11+dfsg-1
1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-1
1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-2
1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-3
1:26.*
1:26.0~rc2+dfsg-1
1:26.0~rc3+dfsg-1
1:26.0+dfsg-1
1:26.0.1+dfsg-1
1:26.0.2+dfsg-1
1:26.1.2+dfsg-1
1:26.2.1+dfsg-1
1:26.2.4+dfsg-1
1:27.*
1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-1
1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-2
1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-3
1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-4
1:27.0+dfsg-1
1:27.0.1+dfsg-1
1:27.0.1+dfsg-2
1:27.0.1+dfsg-3
1:27.1.2+dfsg-1
1:27.2+dfsg-1
1:27.2+dfsg-2
1:27.2+dfsg-3~exp1
1:27.2.1+dfsg-1
1:27.2.1+dfsg-2
1:27.2.2+dfsg-1
1:27.2.3+dfsg-1
1:27.2.4+dfsg-1
1:27.3+dfsg-1
1:27.3.1+dfsg-1
1:27.3.2+dfsg-1
1:27.3.3+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.4+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.8+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.10+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-2
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-3
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-4
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-5
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-6
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-7
1:27.3.4.12+dfsg-1
1:28.*
1:28.0+dfsg-1
1:28.0.1+dfsg-1
1:28.0.2+dfsg-1
1:28.0.4+dfsg-1
1:28.1.1+dfsg-1
1:28.2+dfsg-1
1:28.3+dfsg-1
1:28.3.1+dfsg-1
1:29.*
1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-1
1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-2
1:29.0~rc2+dfsg-1
1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-1
1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-2
1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-3
1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-4
1:29.0+dfsg-1
1:29.0+dfsg-2
1:29.0.1+dfsg-1
1:29.0.2+dfsg-1
1:29.0.3+dfsg-1
1:29.0.4+dfsg-1
1:29.0.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54890.json"

Debian:13 / erlang

Package

Name
erlang
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u3

Affected versions

1:27.*
1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u1
1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54890.json"

Debian:14 / erlang

Package

Name
erlang
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:29.0.4+dfsg-1

Affected versions

1:27.*
1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.4+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.8+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.10+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-1
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-2
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-3
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-4
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-5
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-6
1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-7
1:27.3.4.12+dfsg-1
1:28.*
1:28.0+dfsg-1
1:28.0.1+dfsg-1
1:28.0.2+dfsg-1
1:28.0.4+dfsg-1
1:28.1.1+dfsg-1
1:28.2+dfsg-1
1:28.3+dfsg-1
1:28.3.1+dfsg-1
1:29.*
1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-1
1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-2
1:29.0~rc2+dfsg-1
1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-1
1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-2
1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-3
1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-4
1:29.0+dfsg-1
1:29.0+dfsg-2
1:29.0.1+dfsg-1
1:29.0.2+dfsg-1
1:29.0.3+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54890.json"