The chart below shows the most common weaknesses found in vulnerabilities across the Erlang ecosystem. Understanding which weakness types recur most often helps library authors and application developers focus their security efforts where they matter most.

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Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE-121 CWE-121 at MITRE

A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).

CVEs

CVEs for Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE-121

Summary Publication CVE ID Published
Stack buffer overflow in SCTP error cause parsing in inet_drv allows remote VM crash
pkg:otp/erts
CVE-2026-49759 2026-06-10
Stack Buffer Overflow in ei_s_print_term at Very Large Integer
pkg:otp/erl_interface
CVE-2026-49760 2026-06-10
2 CVEs