USN-6059-1: Erlang vulnerability

8 May 2023

Erlang could allow unintended access to network services.

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Releases

Packages

  • erlang - Concurrent, real-time, distributed functional language

Details

It was discovered that Erlang did not properly implement TLS client
certificate validation during the TLS handshake. A remote attacker could
use this issue to bypass client authentication.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References