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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7238

Netty 4.1.43.Final allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line)...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 netty

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:4.1.45-1"}]}]

Debian:13 netty

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:4.1.45-1"}]}]

Debian:14 netty

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:4.1.45-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org