USN-6059-1: Erlang vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10

• erlang-ssl - 1:24.3.4.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
• erlang - 1:24.3.4.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04

• erlang-ssl - 1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
• erlang - 1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• erlang-ssl - 1:22.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2
• erlang - 1:22.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2

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

References

• CVE-2022-37026