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HIGHCVE-2026-42582Published Modified CNA GitHub_M

CVE-2026-42582: Netty: HTTP/3 QPACK literal unbounded allocation

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final, when decoding header blocks, the non-Huffman branch of io.netty.handler.codec.http3.QpackDecoder#decodeHuffmanEncodedLiteral may execute new byte[length] for a string literal before verifying that length bytes are actually present in the compressed field section. The wire encoding allows a very large length to be expressed in few bytes. There is no check that length <= in.readableBytes() before new byte[length]. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final.

Metrics

CVSS v3.1
7.5
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
Affected Products
2
Affected packages
  • netty / netty
    >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final
  • io.netty / netty-codec-http3
    >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H