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Description

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, Netty HTTP/2 max header size handling produces an attack similar to HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. There is a setting in the http2 specification called `SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE`. When a client sends that setting to Netty, it appears that Netty will behave as follows: read the request; proxy the request to the origin; attempt to produce a response; and create an exception while writing the headers for the response. Functionally, this should be similar to the http2 reset attack, but with a different on-the-wire signature. 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
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
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
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 apache-pulsar-4.2 4.2.2-r3 —
Wolfi rolling celeborn-0.6 0.6.3-r8 —
Wolfi rolling docker-selenium-base 4.44.0.20260505-r2 —
Wolfi rolling docker-selenium-hub +2 4.48.0.20260909-r0 —
Wolfi rolling druid 37.0.0-r13 —
Wolfi rolling flyway 13.0.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling infinispan-16.1 16.1.4-r6 —
Wolfi rolling keycloak-26.5 +4 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling kserve-modelmesh 0.12.0-r35 —
Wolfi rolling management-api-for-apache-cassandra-5.0 0.1.120-r0 —
Wolfi rolling neo4j-2026.01 2026.01.4-r6 —
Wolfi rolling opensearch-3-discovery-ec2 +2 3.8.0-r3 —
Wolfi rolling opensearch-3-security-analytics 3.8.0-r2 —
Wolfi rolling sonarqube 26.8.0.126808-r0 —
Wolfi rolling spark-4.1-scala-2.13 4.1.2-r4 —
Wolfi rolling strimzi-kafka-operator-kafka-thirdparty-libs-cc 1.0.1-r1 —
Wolfi rolling thingsboard-tb-node +1 4.3.1.2-r14 —
Wolfi rolling trino-plugin-opensearch 483-r7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.netty:netty-codec-http2 >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final 4.2.15.Final GHSA-563q-j3cm-6jxm
Maven io.netty:netty-codec-http2 < 4.1.135.Final 4.1.135.Final GHSA-563q-j3cm-6jxm

Advisories 3

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