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netty — security advisory
The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack
- Products
- netty
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:4.1.48-6
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-37136
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-37136
netty
Fixed versions: 1:4.1.48-6
netty
Fixed versions: 1:4.1.48-6
netty
Fixed versions: 1:4.1.48-6
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-10-19T15:15:07.697+00:00"
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