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CVE-2026-55833GHSA-MVH2-CRG5-V77C

Netty SPDY zlib header block continues decoded expansion after maxHeaderSize truncation

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.2.16.Final, 4.1.136.Final
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, Netty SPDY header decoding continues inflating zlib-compressed header blocks after the raw header parser has exceeded `maxHeaderSize` and marked the frame truncated in `SpdyFrameCodec`, allowing a remote peer to send a small compressed `HEADERS` block that expands into much larger raw header data and causes compression-amplified CPU and allocation churn. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • netty netty

    From 4.2.0.Final · fixed in 4.2.16.Final; From 4.1.0.Final · fixed in 4.1.136.Final

  • io.netty:netty-codec-httpMaven

    From 4.2.0.Final · fixed in 4.2.16.Final

  • io.netty:netty-codec-httpMaven

    From 4.1.0.Final · fixed in 4.1.136.Final

References 5

GitHub · netty/netty