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Fedora 23: Critical Vulnerability CVE-2015-2774 for Erlang Denotes DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Erlang patch for CVE-2015-2774 resolves a significant Denial of Service vulnerability on Fedora 23. Ensure you update immediately!
Security fix for CVE-2015-2774

Summary

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime

environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution

and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication

systems from Ericsson.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-2774

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS TLS Erlang

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1206712 - CVE-2015-2774 Erlang/OTP is vulnerable to Poodle in its TLS-1.0 implementation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206712

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update erlang' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: erlang
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 17.4
Release: 5.fc23
URL: https://www.erlang.org/
Summary: General-purpose programming language and runtime environment

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS TLS Erlang

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