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openSUSE 15 Security Update : netty (SUSE-SU-2022:1271-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170223

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1271-1 advisory.

 - Updated to version 4.1.75:
 - CVE-2021-37136: Fixed an unrestricted decompressed data size in Bzip2Decoder (bsc#1190610).
 - CVE-2021-37137: Fixed an unrestricted chunk length in SnappyFrameDecoder, which might lead to excessive memory usage (#bsc#1190613).
 - CVE-2021-43797: Fixed a potential HTTP request smuggling issue due to insufficient validation against control characters (bsc#1193672).
 - CVE-2021-21290: Fixed an information disclosure via the local system temporary directory (bsc#1182103).

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.

Solution

Update the affected netty, netty-javadoc and / or netty-poms packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182103

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183262

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190610

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190613

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193672

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21290

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21295

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-37136

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-37137

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43797

http://www.nessus.org/u?64d6deeb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170223

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1271-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.88

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-43797

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21290, CVE-2021-21295, CVE-2021-37136, CVE-2021-37137, CVE-2021-43797

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1271-1