DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42581
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, HttpObjectDecoder strips a conflicting Content-Length header when a request carries both Transfer-Encoding: chunked and Content-Length, but only for HTTP/1.1 messages. The guard is absent for HTTP/1.0. An attacker that sends an HTTP/1.0 request with both headers causes Netty to decode the body as chunked while leaving Content-Length intact in the forwarded HttpMessage. Any downstream proxy or handler that trusts Content-Length over Transfer-Encoding will disagree on message boundaries, enabling request smuggling. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.
DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42581
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42581
netty
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- 1:4.1.48-10
Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-11Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-12Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-13Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-14Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-15Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-16Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-7Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-7+deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-7+deb12u2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-8Source reference:
/affected/0/versions1:4.1.48-9Source reference:
/affected/0/versions - Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
netty
Source reference: /affected/1/package/name
- Affected versions
- 1:4.1.48-10
Source reference:
/affected/1/versions1:4.1.48-10+deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions1:4.1.48-11Source reference:
/affected/1/versions1:4.1.48-12Source reference:
/affected/1/versions1:4.1.48-13Source reference:
/affected/1/versions1:4.1.48-14Source reference:
/affected/1/versions1:4.1.48-15Source reference:
/affected/1/versions1:4.1.48-16Source reference:
/affected/1/versions - Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
netty
Source reference: /affected/2/package/name
- Affected versions
- 1:4.1.48-10
Source reference:
/affected/2/versions1:4.1.48-11Source reference:
/affected/2/versions1:4.1.48-12Source reference:
/affected/2/versions1:4.1.48-13Source reference:
/affected/2/versions1:4.1.48-14Source reference:
/affected/2/versions1:4.1.48-15Source reference:
/affected/2/versions1:4.1.48-16Source reference:
/affected/2/versions - Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #56074 · Revision 1
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