DSA-4597-1 netty -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4597-1 netty -- security update

Date Reported:

03 Jan 2020

Affected Packages:

netty

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 941266.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-16869.

More information:

It was reported that Netty, a Java NIO client/server framework, is prone to a HTTP request smuggling vulnerability due to mishandling whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:4.1.7-2+deb9u1.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1:4.1.33-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your netty packages.

For the detailed security status of netty please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/netty