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Debian: CVE-2025-4748: erlang -- security update

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 16, 2025
Added
Jun 18, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Erlang OTP (stdlib modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal, File Manipulation. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/stdlib/src/zip.erl and program routines zip:unzip/1, zip:unzip/2, zip:extract/1, zip:extract/2 unless the memory option is passed.

This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 until OTP 28.0.1, OTP 27.3.4.1 and OTP 26.2.5.13, corresponding to stdlib from 2.0 until 7.0.1, 6.2.2.1 and 5.2.3.4.

Solution

debian-upgrade-erlang
Title
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