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Ubuntu: USN-3571-1 (CVE-2015-2774): Erlang vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3571-1 (CVE-2015-2774): Erlang vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/15/2018
Modified
02/15/2018

Description

Erlang/OTP before 18.0-rc1 does not properly check CBC padding bytes when terminating connections, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain cleartext data via a padding-oracle attack, a variant of CVE-2014-3566 (aka POODLE).

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-erlang

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