Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.dns.AbstractDnsRecord, io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DefaultDnsRecordDecoder.decodeRecord(), and io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DnsCodecUtil.decompressDomainName() failed to release retained or newly allocated ByteBuf objects when IDN.toASCII() or encodeDomainName() rejected a malformed domain name, allowing unauthenticated remote DNS packets to leak direct memory incrementally until denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-mfg7-5gfp-c4w3 | Netty: Memory Leak in DNS Record Decoder via Malformed Domain Names |
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History
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| Description | Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.dns.AbstractDnsRecord, io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DefaultDnsRecordDecoder.decodeRecord(), and io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DnsCodecUtil.decompressDomainName() failed to release retained or newly allocated ByteBuf objects when IDN.toASCII() or encodeDomainName() rejected a malformed domain name, allowing unauthenticated remote DNS packets to leak direct memory incrementally until denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final. | |
| Title | Netty: Memory Leak in DNS Record Decoder via Malformed Domain Names | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-772 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-13T17:52:58.403Z
Reserved: 2026-08-12T19:00:33.736Z
Link: CVE-2026-73508
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-13T15:20:17.463
Modified: 2026-08-13T18:18:17.977
Link: CVE-2026-73508
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-13T20:15:03Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA