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Ubuntu: USN-3571-1 (CVE-2017-1000385): Erlang vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3571-1 (CVE-2017-1000385): Erlang vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/08/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/15/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

The Erlang otp TLS server answers with different TLS alerts to different error types in the RSA PKCS #1 1.5 padding. This allows an attacker to decrypt content or sign messages with the server's private key (this is a variation of the Bleichenbacher attack).

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-erlang

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