GHSA-vmr9-j6wf-pmh2High

netty-incubator-codec-ohttp: [OHttpServerCodec] Native Direct-Memory Leak on AEAD Decryption Failure Leads to Gateway Denial of Service

Published
August 20, 2026
Last Modified
August 20, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The netty-incubator-codec-ohttp library implements Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) gateway and client functionality using Netty's ByteBuf memory management. When an OHTTP gateway processes encrypted client requests, it allocates a pooled direct (native off-heap) ByteBuf to hold the decrypted plaintext before the AEAD tag is verified. If the AEAD tag check fails — meaning the ciphertext is invalid — the decryption method throws a CryptoException, but the allocated buffer is never released because no try/finally block guards the allocation.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/io.netty.incubator:netty-incubator-codec-ohttp:< 0.0.23.Final

🔗 References (3)