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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-93491

A flaw was found in Netty's HttpServerCodec. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by pipelining HTTP/1.1 requests on a si...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A flaw was found in Netty's HttpServerCodec. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by pipelining HTTP/1.1 requests on a single connection and withholding reads. This action causes the methodOverflowQueue to grow without limit, leading to unbounded heap memory consumption and a denial of service due to memory exhaustion.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 netty

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:13 netty

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 netty

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org