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CVE-2026-59902GHSA-2QJ4-MMR9-4V2F

Netty: Memory Exhaustion in SctpMessageCompletionHandler

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.1.137.Final, 4.2.17.Final
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.17.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.sctp.SctpMessageCompletionHandler limits incomplete messages and fragment counts but not maxBufferedBytes, allowing unauthenticated peers to exhaust memory with large SCTP fragments. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.17.Final.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

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

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • netty netty

    fixed in 4.1.137.Final; From 4.2.0.Final · fixed in 4.2.17.Final

  • io.netty:netty-transport-sctpMaven

    From 4.2.0.Final · fixed in 4.2.17.Final

  • io.netty:netty-transport-sctpMaven

    fixed in 4.1.137.Final

References 6

GitHub · netty/netty