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Erlang/OTP -- denial of service in epmd

Affected packages
erlang < 28.5.0.4,4
erlang-runtime27 < 27.3.4.15
erlang-runtime28 < 28.5.0.4
erlang-runtime29 < 29.0.4

Details

VuXML ID 445e3324-89e1-11f1-b35c-4c526214c986
Discovery 2026-07-27
Entry 2026-07-27

The Erlang/OTP team reports:

Mitigated a denial of service attack in epmd.

[source]

References

CVE Name CVE-2026-42792
URL https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-29.0.4

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