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Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final, when decoding header blocks, the non-Huffman branch of io.netty.handler.codec.http3.QpackDecoder#decodeHuffmanEncodedLiteral may execute new byte[length] for a string literal before verifying that length bytes are actually present in the compressed field section. The wire encoding allows a very large length to be expressed in few bytes. There is no check that length <= in.readableBytes() before new byte[length]. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
netty netty >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final —
io.netty netty-codec-http3 >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 netty No fix yet —
Debian 13 netty No fix yet —
Debian 12 netty No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 netty 4.1.133-150200.4.46.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
SLES 15 SP7 netty-tcnative 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
SLES 15 SP6 netty-tcnative 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
SLES 15 SP5 netty-tcnative 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
SLES 15 SP4 netty-tcnative 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 netty-tcnative 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 netty-tcnative 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 netty-tcnative 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 netty-tcnative 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 netty-tcnative 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed netty 4.1.133-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10795-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling druid 37.0.0-r8 —
Wolfi rolling opensearch-3 +2 3.6.0-r5 —
Wolfi rolling spark-4.1-scala-2.13 4.1.2-r1 —
Wolfi rolling trino-plugin-hive +7 481-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.netty:netty-codec-http3 >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.13.Final 4.2.13.Final GHSA-2c5c-chwr-9hqw

Advisories 3

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