Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1941-1 netty -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 30 Sep 2019
- Affected Packages:
- netty
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-16869.
- More information:
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Netty mishandled whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (such as a “Transfer-Encoding : chunked” line), which lead to HTTP request smuggling.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.2.6.Final-2+deb8u1.We recommend that you upgrade your netty packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS