DEBIAN-CVE-2026-116542

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-116542
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-116542.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-116542
Upstream
Published
2026-10-26T16:17:19Z
Modified
2026-10-27T07:00:40Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Netty netty-tcnative before 2.0.84.Final contains an SNI hostname spoofing vulnerability that allows remote unauthenticated clients to alter hostnames via JNI NewStringUTF decoding. Attackers can send overlong encodings like 0xC0 0x80 in the ClientHello server_name to confuse SNI-based certificate selection, access decisions, and logging.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / netty-tcnative

Package

Name
netty-tcnative
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/netty-tcnative?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.28-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-116542.json"

Debian:13 / netty-tcnative

Package

Name
netty-tcnative
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/netty-tcnative?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.28-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-116542.json"

Debian:14 / netty-tcnative

Package

Name
netty-tcnative
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/netty-tcnative?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.28-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-116542.json"