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Description

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In versions of netty-transport-sctp prior to 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, for each non-complete SctpMessage fragment the handler does `fragments.put(streamId, Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(frag, byteBuf))`, wrapping the previous accumulator and the new slice into a *new* CompositeByteBuf every time. After N fragments the accumulator is an N-deep chain of composites, each holding references and component arrays; readableBytes()/getBytes() on the final buffer recurse N levels. There is no limit on N, on total bytes, or on the number of streamIdentifiers an attacker can open (each gets its own map entry). A peer that never sets the `complete` flag can grow this structure indefinitely from tiny 1-byte DATA chunks. Versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final patch the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
netty netty >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final, < 4.1.135.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
Ubuntu 26.10 netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 netty No fix yet —
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-activemq-artemis +15 2.16.0-22.redhat_00057.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-glassfish-jsf 2.3.14-11.SP11_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-ironjacamar +8 1.5.26-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-jackson-core +10 2.18.8-1.redhat_00003.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-jboss-remoting 5.0.31-3.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-jboss-server-migration +2 1.10.0-46.Final_redhat_00044.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-netty +26 4.1.135-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-picketlink-api +7 2.5.5-24.SP12_redhat_00016.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-picketlink-bindings +1 2.5.5-30.SP12_redhat_00020.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-undertow 2.2.40-1.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-wildfly +4 7.4.25-2.GA_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-wildfly-java-jdk17 7.4.25-2.GA_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 netty 4.1.135-150200.4.50.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES 15 SP7 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES 15 SP6 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES 15 SP5 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES 15 SP4 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed netty 4.1.135-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11033-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling celeborn-0.6 0.6.3-r8 —
Wolfi rolling management-api-for-apache-cassandra-5.0 0.1.120-r0 —
Wolfi rolling tez 0.10.5-r16 —
Wolfi rolling thingsboard-tb-node +1 4.3.1.2-r6 —
Wolfi rolling trino +4 483-r7 —
Wolfi rolling trino-plugin-hive +7 481-r7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.netty:netty-transport-sctp >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final 4.2.15.Final GHSA-5xrh-qmmq-w6ch
Maven io.netty:netty-transport-sctp < 4.1.135.Final 4.1.135.Final GHSA-5xrh-qmmq-w6ch

Advisories 6

References