GHSA-c2gf-v879-257jMediumCVSS 5.3
netty-codec-http2: ByteBuf Reference-Count Leak in DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener Leads to Memory Exhaustion
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
The DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener class orchestrates HTTP/2 decompression by embedding a per-stream EmbeddedChannel that runs the appropriate decompression codec (gzip, deflate, zstd) and forwards decompressed chunks to a wrapped listener. Each decompressed chunk is a pooled ByteBuf handed to an anonymous ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter tail handler, which becomes the sole owner responsible for releasing it.
A remote peer could send frames that would result in the flow-controller throwing and so trigger a resource leak which at the end might take down the whole JVM due OOME.
🎯 Affected products2
- maven/io.netty:netty-codec-http2:<= 4.1.134.Final
- maven/io.netty:netty-codec-http2:>= 4.2.0.Alpha1, <= 4.2.14.Final
🔗 References (27)
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-c2gf-v879-257j
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48043
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.135.Final
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.15.Final
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26017
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26018
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26586
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34608
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48043
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488442
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48043.json
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36820
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37390
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41951
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48124
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48151
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50085
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53806
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53644
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54435
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65126
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66488
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53646
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53645
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/db6138b168699736a6463c367e12ad0a4c36a25e
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/3d45a1e4e8eb99144f716e54be5ac57e525fa7ca
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c2gf-v879-257j