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Unscored USN-3571-1 4 CVEs

erlang vulnerabilities

Published Feb 14, 2018 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that the Erlang FTP module incorrectly handled certain
CRLF sequences. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject
arbitrary FTP commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2014-1693)

It was discovered that Erlang incorrectly checked CBC padding bytes. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a padding oracle
attack and decrypt traffic. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2015-2774)

It was discovered that Erlang incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Erlang to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary
code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10253)

Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young discovered that the Erlang
otp TLS server incorrectly handled error reporting. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to perform a variation of the Bleichenbacher attack
and decrypt traffic or sign messages. (CVE-2017-1000385)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS erlang 1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS erlang 1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1

Vulnerabilities 4

  • Unscored —

    Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in the FTP module in Erlang/OTP R15B03 allow context-dependent attackers to inj…

  • Unscored —

    Erlang/OTP before 18.0-rc1 does not properly check CBC padding bytes when terminating connections, which makes it easie…

  • Unscored —

    An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18.x. Erlang's generation of compiled regular expressions is vulnerable to a heap…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2017-1000385 Public exploit EPSS 22%

    The Erlang otp TLS server answers with different TLS alerts to different error types in the RSA PKCS #1 1.5 padding. Th…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1693
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2774
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10253
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000385