netty — security advisory
The Snappy frame decoder function doesn't restrict the chunk length which may lead to excessive memory usage. Beside this it also may buffer reserved skippable chunks until the whole chunk was received which may lead to excessive memory usage as well. This vulnerability can be triggered by supplying malicious input that decompresses to a very big size (via a network stream or a file) or by sending a huge skippable chunk.
- Products
- netty
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:4.1.48-6
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-37137
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Snappy frame decoder function doesn't restrict the chunk length which may lead to excessive memory usage. Beside this it also may buffer reserved skippable chunks until the whole chunk was received which may lead to excessive memory usage as well. This vulnerability can be triggered by supplying malicious input that decompresses to a very big size (via a network stream or a file) or by sending a huge skippable chunk.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-37137
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": "2021-10-19T15:15:07.757+00:00"
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