CVE-2026-70409

NameCVE-2026-70409
DescriptionImproper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP eldap allows a malicious or compromised LDAP server to degrade availability by returning a referral URL whose port component is a very long run of digits. eldap:parse_port/2 passes the port substring straight to list_to_integer/1 with no length bound. The surrounding try ... catch only rejects a value that fails to parse, so a syntactically valid port of up to roughly 1.26 million digits converts successfully and costs the caller hundreds of milliseconds of arbitrary-precision arithmetic per referral. The conversion function itself is documented to accept integers of any size, so bounding the input is the caller's responsibility. Reaching the flaw requires the application to pass a server-supplied referral to eldap:parse_ldap_url/1, which eldap never calls itself: referral strings are returned to the caller unparsed. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to eldap from 1.0.3 before 1.2.14.2, from 1.2.15 before 1.2.16.1, and from 1.3 before 1.3.1.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1146603

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
erlang (PTS)bookworm1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u4vulnerable
bookworm (security)1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie (security), trixie1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u3vulnerable
forky1:29.0.4+dfsg-1vulnerable
sid1:29.0.6+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
erlangsource(unstable)1:29.0.6+dfsg-11146603

Notes

https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-9vgh-c8cm-m9p4
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-70409.html
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-70409
Fixed by: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e3be1cfe9f6cedd0cd20d9905e05601dfb31c8aa (OTP-29.0.6, OTP-28.5.0.6)
Fixed by: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/aba0fe8c2d700bf4ac94607cf7f00e53bbe4042d (OTP-27.3.4.17)

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