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Debian: CVE-2021-37136: netty -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-37136: netty -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/19/2021
Created
01/14/2023
Added
01/13/2023
Modified
01/13/2023

Description

The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-netty

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