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Debian: CVE-2020-7238: netty -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-7238: netty -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/27/2020
Created
02/21/2020
Added
02/21/2020
Modified
08/17/2022

Description

Netty 4.1.43.Final allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-netty

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