CVE-2019-16869: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

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Netty before 4.1.42.Final mishandles whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (such as a “Transfer-Encoding : chunked” line), which leads to HTTP request smuggling.

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