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Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, the MQTT 5 header Properties section is parsed and buffered before any message size limit is applied. Specifically, in MqttDecoder, the decodeVariableHeader() method is called before the bytesRemainingBeforeVariableHeader > maxBytesInMessage check. The decodeVariableHeader() can call other methods which will call decodeProperties(). Effectively, Netty does not apply any limits to the size of the properties being decoded. Additionally, because MqttDecoder extends ReplayingDecoder, Netty will repeatedly re-parse the enormous Properties sections and buffer the bytes in memory, until the entire thing parses to completion. This can cause high resource usage in both CPU and memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
netty netty >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final, < 4.1.133.Final —
io.netty netty-codec-mqtt >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final, < 4.1.133.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 apache-activemq-artemis 2.54.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling celeborn-0.6 0.6.3-r3 —
Wolfi rolling druid 37.0.0-r8 —
Wolfi rolling management-api-for-apache-cassandra-5.0 0.1.117-r1 —
Wolfi rolling tez 0.10.5-r12 —
Wolfi rolling thingsboard-tb-node +1 4.3.1.1-r9 —
Wolfi rolling trino-plugin-hive +7 481-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.netty:netty-codec-mqtt >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final 4.2.13.Final GHSA-jfg9-48mv-9qgx
Maven io.netty:netty-codec-mqtt < 4.1.133.Final 4.1.133.Final GHSA-jfg9-48mv-9qgx

Advisories 5

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