Netty (io.netty:netty-codec-socks) versions 4.2.0.Final through 4.2.16.Final and 4.1.x through 4.1.136.Final contain null byte, CRLF, and credential injection vulnerabilities in the SOCKS4 (Socks4ClientEncoder) and SOCKS5 (Socks5ClientEncoder) client encoders, which fail to validate domain address and authentication (username/password) fields. An attacker able to control these fields can inject null bytes or CRLF characters to truncate or alter values, potentially enabling domain spoofing, SOCKS4 userid truncation, authentication data injection, and protocol confusion. Fixed in 4.2.17.Final and 4.1.137.Final.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:4391-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2026-59902: Netty: Memory Exhaustion in SctpMessageCompletionHandler (bsc#1275501).
    - CVE-2026-59903: Netty Vulnerable to Cache Poisoning and Information Disclosure via CORS Vary Header     Overwrite       (bsc#1275500).
    - CVE-2026-62243: TLS hostname verification bypass in Netty OpenSSL client path (bsc#1276455).
    - CVE-2026-62380: null byte and CRLF injection in Socks4ClientEncoder and Socks5ClientEncoder     (bsc#1276456).
    - CVE-2026-75595: fragmented TLS `ClientHello` causes fallback to default `SslContext` and allows for SNI     routing and       mTLS requirement bypass (bsc#1276420).
    - CVE-2026-75596: fragmented `ClientHello`records can trigger quadratic pre-handshake reassembly in     default SNI parsing       (bsc#1276421).
    - CVE-2026-76816: missing input validation in `MqttEncoder` allows for null-byte injection, topic     hijacking, and ACL       bypassing (bsc#1277243).
    - CVE-2026-89044: HTTP request smuggling in Netty via improper validation of final Transfer-Encoding     coding       (bsc#1280048).
    - CVE-2026-93488: Denial of Service via unbounded concurrent SPDY streams (bsc#1282084).
    - CVE-2026-93491: Denial of Service via unbounded HttpServerCodec HTTP/1.1 pipeline queue (bsc#1282085).
    - CVE-2026-93492: HTTP/2 HpackEncoder DoS with large table size (bsc#1282132).
    - CVE-2026-93493: missing `nextUpdate` field in OCSP responses leads to silent validation bypass     (bsc#1281431).
    - CVE-2026-93494: ByteBuf Leak in StompSubframeDecoder When a Frame Body Is Never Terminated     (bsc#1282506).
    - CVE-2026-93558: Unbounded Per-Connection Queue Growth in WebSocketServerExtensionHandler Leads to Denial     of Service       (bsc#1282140).
    - CVE-2026-93560: STOMP codec content-length long-to-int truncation causes infinite decode loop DoS     (bsc#1282141).
    - CVE-2026-93562: Incomplete validation of malformed Transfer-Encoding allows HTTP request smuggling     (bsc#1282362).
    - CVE-2026-93563: unbounded multi-line response accumulation in `SmtpResponseDecoder` leads to memory     exhaustion and a       DoS (bsc#1281432).
    - CVE-2026-93564: HAProxy PROXY-v2 nested-TLV grandchild ByteBuf reference-count leak (bsc#1282363).
    - CVE-2026-93565: RtspDecoder Method-Token Smuggling via Trailing Control Byte (bsc#1282364).
    - CVE-2026-93566: HTTP Request Smuggling due to control characters in the chunk-size line (bsc#1282366).
    - CVE-2026-93567: HTTP/1 authority-form CONNECT is translated to malformed HTTP/2 CONNECT with Host-     controlled       :authority (bsc#1282367).
    - CVE-2026-93568: HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Extended CONNECT requests are downgraded as regular CONNECT requests     (bsc#1282370).
    - CVE-2026-93569: HTTP/1 absolute-form Host mismatch is translated to HTTP/2 :authority, overriding the     request-target       authority (bsc#1282372).
    - CVE-2026-93572: multiplication of patched preallocation limits in `RedisArrayAggregator` nested RESP     headers can lead       to denial of service (bsc#1281433).
    - CVE-2026-93573: Incomplete validation of malformed Transfer-Encoding allows HTTP request smuggling     (bsc#1282373).
    - CVE-2026-93574: HTTP request smuggling via post-digit whitespace in chunk-size parsing (bsc#1282374).
    - CVE-2026-93575: missing validations in the `MqttDecoder` can lead to excessive resource consumption and     a DoS       (bsc#1281434).
    - CVE-2026-93576: netty-codec-smtp -- SMTP command-name field is not CRLF-validated (bsc#1282507).
    - CVE-2026-93578: missing Extended Key Usage (EKU) check in OCSP client allows certificate revocation     bypass       (bsc#1281435).
    - CVE-2026-93579: HTTP/2 header field values are not validated by default (bsc#1282378).

    Changes for netty:

    - Upgrade to upstream version 4.1.138

    Changes for netty-tcnative:

    - Upgrade to version 2.0.84 Final

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Netty (io.netty:netty-codec-socks) versions 4.2.0.Final through 4.2.16.Final and 4.1.x through     4.1.136.Final contain null byte, CRLF, and credential injection vulnerabilities in the SOCKS4     (Socks4ClientEncoder) and SOCKS5 (Socks5ClientEncoder) client encoders, which fail to validate domain     address and authentication (username/password) fields. An attacker able to control these fields can inject     null bytes or CRLF characters to truncate or alter values, potentially enabling domain spoofing, SOCKS4     userid truncation, authentication data injection, and protocol confusion. Fixed in 4.2.17.Final and     4.1.137.Final. (CVE-2026-62380)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
351404	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : netty, netty-tcnative (SUSE-SU-2026:4391-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	critical
338872	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-62380	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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