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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2555-1 netty -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

11 Feb 2021

Affected Packages:

netty

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-21290.

More information:

It was discovered that there was an insecure temporary file issue that could have lead to disclosure of arbitrary local files.

• CVE-2021-21290

  Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In Netty before version 4.1.59.Final there is a vulnerability on Unix-like systems involving an insecure temp file. [...]

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1:4.1.7-2+deb9u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your netty packages.

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