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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-7238): Netty vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-7238): Netty vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/27/2020
Created
10/26/2020
Added
10/23/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libnetty-3-9-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libnetty-java

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