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CVE-2015-2774

Publication date 7 April 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

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).

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
erlang 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Notes


sbeattie

patch is against erlang 18 prerelease, unclear if 17 and 16 need fix

Patch details

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Package Patch details
erlang

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.9 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3571-1
    • Erlang vulnerabilities
    • 14 February 2018

Other references