Bug#950966: netty: CVE-2019-20444

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: netty
Version: 1:4.1.33-3
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/9866

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for netty.

CVE-2019-20444[0]:
| 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."


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-2019-20444
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-20444
[1] https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/9866
[2] https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/a7c18d44b46e02dadfe3da225a06e5091f5f328e

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore