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High USN-4866-1 4 CVEs

netty vulnerabilities

Published Jun 29, 2021 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that Netty incorrectly implements HTTP/2. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9512,
CVE-2019-9514, CVE-2019-9515, CVE-2019-9518)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS netty 1:4.1.7-4ubuntu0.1+esm1

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-9512 EPSS 83%

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses. Depending on how efficiently this data is qu…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-9514 EPSS 83%

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a reset flood, potentially leading to a denial of service

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a reset flood, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker opens a number of streams and sends an invalid request over each stream that should solicit a stream of RST_STREAM frames from the peer. Depe…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-9515 EPSS 87%

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a denial of service

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of SETTINGS frames to the peer. Since the RFC requires that the peer reply with one acknowledgement per SETTINGS frame, an …

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-9518 EPSS 25%

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a flood of empty frames, potentially leading to a denial of service

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a flood of empty frames, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of frames with an empty payload and without the end-of-stream flag. These frames can be DATA, HEADERS, CONTINUATION …

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9512
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9514
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9515
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9518