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Debian 8: DLA-2110-1 Moderate: Netty 3.9 Risks of DoS & Smuggling

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
To secure Netty 3.9 on Debian 8, employ strategic measures: update libraries, configure strict access, implement IDS, limit features, conduct audits, and prepare response plans
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Netty, a Java NIO client/server socket framework:

Summary

CVE-2014-0193

WebSocket08FrameDecoder allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (memory consumption) via a TextWebSocketFrame followed
by a long stream of ContinuationWebSocketFrames.

CVE-2014-3488

The SslHandler allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a crafted
SSLv2Hello message.

CVE-2019-16869

Netty mishandles whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (such
as a "Transfer-Encoding : chunked" line), which leads to HTTP
request smuggling.

CVE-2019-20444

HttpObjectDecoder.java allows an HTTP header that lacks a colon,
which might be interpreted as a separate header with an incorrect
syntax, or might be interpreted as an "invalid fold."

CVE-2019-20445

HttpObjectDecoder.java allows a Content-Length header to be
accompanied by a second Content-Length header, or by a
Transfer-Encoding header.

CVE-2020-7238

Netty allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles

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Package: netty-3.9
Version: 3.9.0.Final-1+deb8u1
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0193 CVE-2014-3488 CVE-2019-16869 CVE-2019-20444
Debian Bug: 746639 941266 950966 950967

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