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CVE-2026-42583GHSA-MJ4R-2HFC-F8P6

Netty: Lz4FrameDecoder resource exhaustion

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.2.13.Final, 4.1.133.Final
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, Lz4FrameDecoder allocates a ByteBuf of size decompressedLength (up to 32 MB per block) before LZ4 runs. A peer only needs a 21-byte header plus compressedLength payload bytes - 22 bytes if compressedLength == 1 - to force that allocation. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • netty netty

    From 4.2.0.Alpha1 · fixed in 4.2.13.Final; fixed in 4.1.133.Final

  • io.netty netty-codec

    fixed in 4.1.133.Final

  • io.netty netty-codec-compression

    fixed in 4.2.13.Final

  • io.netty:netty-codec-compressionMaven

    fixed in 4.2.13.Final

  • io.netty:netty-codecMaven

    fixed in 4.1.133.Final

References 1

GitHub · netty/netty