Debian DLA-2365-1 : netty-3.9 security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 140296

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in netty-3.9, a Java NIO client/server socket framework.

CVE-2019-16869

Netty before 4.1.42.Final 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 in Netty before 4.1.44 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 in Netty before 4.1.44 allows a Content-Length header to be accompanied by a second Content-Length header, or by a Transfer-Encoding header.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.9.Final-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your netty-3.9 packages.

For the detailed security status of netty-3.9 please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/netty-3.9

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-3.9-java package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00004.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/netty-3.9

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/netty-3.9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 140296

File Name: debian_DLA-2365.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2020

Updated: 2/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20445

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnetty-3.9-java, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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: 9/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16869, CVE-2019-20444, CVE-2019-20445