Bug#941266: netty: CVE-2019-16869

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: netty
Version: 1:4.1.33-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/9571

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for netty.

CVE-2019-16869[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16869
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16869
[1] https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/9571

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore