Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: erlang
The version of Erlang supplied with Ubuntu has been version R13B3 at least
since 10.04 LTS. The latest available Erlang version is R14B3 (with R14B4 soon
coming out), which is many bug fixes and several feature improvements further
along.
There exists exploitable bugs in R13B3 (you may be able to cause growing store
problems running servers out of memory, say), so this may possibly be security
related in addition to just staying with the times.
I highly recommend you update the included erlang and OTP packages to R14B4 for
11.10, especially if that is going to be another LTS release.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: erlang 1:13.b.3-dfsg-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jun 10 09:17:29 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: erlang
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: erlang (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug erlang i386 natty
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Supplied version of Erlang is 2 years old and contains exploitable
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