USN-7443-2: Erlang vulnerability

23 April 2025

Erlang could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Releases

Packages

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

Details

USN-7443-1 fixed a vulnerability in Erlang. This update provides the
corresponding update for Ubuntu 25.04.

Original advisory details:

Fabian Bäumer, Marcel Maehren, Marcus Brinkmann, and Jörg Schwenk
discovered that Erlang OTP’s SSH module incorrect handled authentication.
A remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary commands
without authentication, possibly leading to a system compromise.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 25.04

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

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