netty-codec-http2: ByteBuf Reference-Count Leak in DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener Leads to Memory Exhaustion
GHSA-c2gf-v879-257j · CVE-2026-48043
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Description
Impact
The DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener class orchestrates HTTP/2 decompression by embedding a per-stream EmbeddedChannel that runs the appropriate decompression codec (gzip, deflate, zstd) and forwards decompressed chunks to a wrapped listener. Each decompressed chunk is a pooled ByteBuf handed to an anonymous ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter tail handler, which becomes the sole owner responsible for releasing it.
A remote peer could send frames that would result in the flow-controller throwing and so trigger a resource leak which at the end might take down the whole JVM due OOME.
References
- WEB https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-c2gf-v879-257j
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48043
- WEB https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48043.json
- WEB https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.15.Final
- WEB https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.135.Final
- PACKAGE https://github.com/netty/netty
- WEB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488442
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48043
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66488
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65126
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54435
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53806
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53646
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53645
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53644
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50085
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48151
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48124
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41951
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37390
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36820
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34608
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26586
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26018
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26017
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