USN-7918-1: Netty vulnerabilities

Publication date

9 December 2025

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Netty.


Packages

  • netty - event-driven asynchronous network application framework

Details

Jeppe Bonde Weikop discovered that Netty incorrectly parsed HTTP
messages. When Netty is used with certain reverse proxies, a
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request
smuggling attacks. (CVE-2025-58056)

Jonas Konrad discovered that Netty did not properly manage memory when
decoding compressed data. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Netty to consume excessive memory, resulting in a denial
of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu
20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04, and
Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-58057)

Jeppe Bonde Weikop discovered that Netty incorrectly parsed HTTP
messages. When Netty is used with certain reverse proxies, a
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request
smuggling attacks. (CVE-2025-58056)

Jonas Konrad discovered that Netty did not properly manage memory when
decoding compressed data. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Netty to consume excessive memory, resulting in a denial
of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu
20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04, and
Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-58057)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
25.10 questing libnetty-java –  1:4.1.48-10ubuntu0.25.10.2
25.04 plucky libnetty-java –  1:4.1.48-10ubuntu0.25.04.2
24.04 LTS noble libnetty-java –  1:4.1.48-9ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy libnetty-java –  1:4.1.48-4+deb11u2ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal libnetty-java –  1:4.1.45-1ubuntu0.1~esm4  
18.04 LTS bionic libnetty-java –  1:4.1.7-4ubuntu0.1+esm5  
16.04 LTS xenial libnetty-java –  1:4.0.34-1ubuntu0.1~esm3  

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