io.netty/netty-codec-http2: Netty: Denial of Service via HTTP/2 DATA frame memory leak

A flaw was found in Netty, a network application framework. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted HTTP/2 DATA frames to applications that use Netty and have HTTP/2 content decompression enabled. This can lead to memory exhaustion, causing t...

CVE-2026-56819

What was affected: Netty versions 4.2.0.Final–4.2.15.Final and 4.1.0.Final–4.1.135.Final. Root cause: when processing HTTP/2 DATA frames for streams whose decompressor had already closed, Http2Decompressor.decompress(...) retains the inbound ByteBuf and does not release it on the error path, leak...