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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : Netty vulnerabilities (USN-8401-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 320400

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8401-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Netty's HTTP proxy handler did not properly validate headers when constructing CONNECT requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary HTTP headers into CONNECT requests. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42578)

 It was discovered that Netty's DNS codec did not properly enforce domain name constraints. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass domain name validation, or cause Netty to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42579)

 It was discovered that Netty did not correctly handle HTTP/1.0 requests containing both a Transfer- Encoding and Content-Length header. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2026-42581)

 Violeta Georgieva discovered that Netty incorrectly paired responses with requests when handling informational HTTP responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2026-42584)

 Violeta Georgieva discovered that Netty incorrectly parsed malformed Transfer-Encoding headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2026-42585)

 It was discovered that Netty's Redis encoder did not validate CRLF characters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary Redis commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42586)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 libnetty-buffer-java, libnetty-common-java and / or libnetty-java packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8401-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 320400

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8401-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/11/2026

Updated: 6/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42581

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 2.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42578

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetty-buffer-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetty-common-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetty-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts

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: 6/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-42578, CVE-2026-42579, CVE-2026-42581, CVE-2026-42584, CVE-2026-42585, CVE-2026-42586

USN: 8401-1