USN-7284-1: Netty vulnerabilities

24 February 2025

Several security issues were fixed in Netty.

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Releases

Packages

  • netty - Java NIO client/server socket framework

Details

Jonathan Leitschuh discovered that Netty did not correctly handle file
permissions when writing temporary files. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to leak sensitive information. (CVE-2022-24823)

It was discovered that Netty did not correctly handle limiting the number
of fields when decoding a HTTP request. An attacker could possibly use
issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29025)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.10
Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

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

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