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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Netty vulnerabilities (USN-4532-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 140753

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4532-1 advisory.

 - 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-2019-16869)

 - 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-2019-20444)

 - 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. (CVE-2019-20445)

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

Solution

Update the affected libnetty-3.9-java package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4532-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 140753

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4532-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2020

Updated: 10/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetty-3.9-java

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2019

Reference Information

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

USN: 4532-1