Debian DLA-1941-1 : netty security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 129476

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected libnetty-java package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129476

File Name: debian_DLA-1941.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2019

Updated: 4/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16869

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnetty-java

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16869

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