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CVE-2026-116541EUVD-2026-109911GHSA-RM79-885G-92CH

netty-tcnative before 2.0.84.Final Denial of Service via BIO Write Overcount

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.0.84.Final
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

The netty-tcnative library, which provides native OpenSSL-based TLS support for the Netty networking framework used in Java applications, is affected. A remote TLS 1.3 peer can trigger this flaw to cause connection failures or crash the Java process, resulting in denial of service.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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Netty netty-tcnative before 2.0.84.Final contains a denial of service vulnerability in the tcn_write_to_bytebuffer BIO write callback that overreports bytes consumed. Remote TLS 1.3 peers can provoke queued post-handshake records like NewSessionTicket or KeyUpdate to truncate flights, fail connections, or abort the JVM process.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • io.netty:netty-tcnative

    fixed in 2.0.84.Final

  • io.netty:netty-tcnative-boringssl-static

    fixed in 2.0.84.Final

References 6

GitHub · netty/netty-tcnative

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