Description
A flaw was found in Netty's HttpServerCodec. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by pipelining HTTP/1.1 requests on a single connection and withholding reads. This action causes the methodOverflowQueue to grow without limit, leading to unbounded heap memory consumption and a denial of service due to memory exhaustion.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Red Hat Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 3.33.3.SP2
Default version status: affected
4.1.138.Final-redhat-00001 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Build of Debezium 3.6
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.27.5.SP2
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.33.3.SP2
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat AMQ Broker 7
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat AMQ Clients
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Build of Keycloak
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Data Grid 8
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Fuse 7
Default version status: unknown
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
Default version status: unknown
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
Default version status: affected
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69440 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69470 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70257 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83612 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93491 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536891 ↗
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.138.Final ↗
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.18.Final ↗