[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#980199: erlang: CVE-2020-35733

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: erlang
Version: 1:23.2.1+dfsg-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Justification: user security hole
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for erlang.

CVE-2020-35733[0]:
| An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP before 23.2.2. The ssl
| application 10.2 accepts and trusts an invalid X.509 certificate chain
| to a trusted root Certification Authority.

It is specific to OTP-23.2, see the security-tracker information.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-35733
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-35733
[1] https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2021-January/100357.html

Regards,
Salvatore