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USN-8401-1: Netty vulnerabilities

Details It was discovered that Netty's HTTP proxy handler did not properly validate headers when constructing CONNECT requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary HTTP headers into CONNECT requests. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42578) It was discovered that Netty's DNS codec did not properly enforce domain name constraints. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass domain name validation, or cause Netty to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42579) It was discovered that Netty did not correctly handle HTTP/1.0 requests containing…

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Jun 8, 2026
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