GHSA-558v-64gr-wgg4
HIGHCVE-2026-59901The Bzip2Decoder handler in Netty's compression codec pipeline is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack through a malformed bzip2 stream that permanently captures the event-loop thread in an infinite loop. The vulnerability exists in the run-length encoding (RLE) state machine within [Bzip2BlockDecompressor.read()]
- Affected
- >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.16.Final
- Fixed in
- 4.2.16.Final
- Weakness
- CWE-835
- Published
- 2026-07-22
- Source
- github