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Fedora 44 erlang Important Fix for CVE-2026-48855 SSH Info Disclosure

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical patch for erlang in Fedora 44 addressing CVE-2026-48855 to prevent information disclosure via SFTP symlink resolution.
Fix for CVE-2026-48855

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:

Fix for CVE-2026-48855

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora important information disclosure SSH erlang

Change Log

* Sat Jun 13 2026 Peter Lemenkov - 26.2.5.21-3 - Backport fix for CVE-2026-48855 * Tue Jun 2 2026 Peter Lemenkov - 26.2.5.21-2 - Ditch outdated src subpackage

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2488319 - CVE-2026-48855 erlang: Erlang OTP ssh: Information disclosure via symlink resolution in SFTP [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488319

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-ef630b13b0' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: erlang
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 26.2.5.21
Release: 3.fc44
URL: https://www.erlang.org
Summary: General-purpose programming language and runtime environment

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora important information disclosure SSH erlang

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