UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48038

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48038

    Published: 11 Sept 2025Last Modified: 16 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2025-48038
    Aliases:
    USN-7831-1

    Summary:

    Details: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftp modules) allows Excessive Allocation, Resource Leak Exposure. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/ssh_sftpd.erl. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 28.0.3, OTP 27.3.4.3 and OTP 26.2.5.15, corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 before 5.3.3, 5.2.11.3 and 5.1.4.12.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-48038, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48038, https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-pvj7-9652-7h9r, https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7831-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: erlang

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/erlang?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2+esm1

    Affected versions

    1:16.b.1-dfsg-4ubuntu1
    1:16.b.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1
    1:16.b.2-dfsg-2ubuntu1
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu1
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.1
    1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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