USN-4600-2: Netty vulnerabilities

27 October 2020

netty could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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USN-4600-1 fixed multiple vunerabilities in Netty 3.9. This update provides
the corresponding fixes for CVE-2019-20444, CVE-2019-20445 for Netty.

Also it was discovered that Netty allow for unbounded memory allocation. A
remote attacker could send a large stream to the Netty server causing it to
crash (denial of service). (CVE-2020-11612)

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Netty had HTTP request smuggling vulnerabilities. A
remote attacker could used it to extract sensitive information. (CVE-2019-16869,
CVE-2019-20444, CVE-2019-20445, CVE-2020-7238)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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