CVE-2026-42587 Netty: HttpContentDecompressor maxAllocation bypass via Content-Encoding: br/zstd/snappy enables decompression bomb DoS

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, HttpContentDecompressor accepts a maxAllocation parameter to limit decompression buffer size and prevent decompression bomb attacks. This limit is correctly enforced for gzip and deflate...

CVE-2026-42587

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, HttpContentDecompressor accepts a maxAllocation parameter to limit decompression buffer size and prevent decompression bomb attacks. This limit is correctly enforced for gzip and deflate...

urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data

A decompression handling flaw has been discovered in urllib3. When streaming a compressed response, urllib3 can perform decoding or decompression based on the HTTP Content-Encoding header e.g., gzip, deflate, br, or zstd. The library must read compressed data from the network and decompress it...

urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data

A decompression handling flaw has been discovered in urllib3. When streaming a compressed response, urllib3 can perform decoding or decompression based on the HTTP Content-Encoding header e.g., gzip, deflate, br, or zstd. The library must read compressed data from the network and decompress it...

USN-7927-2: urllib3 regression

USN-7927-1 fixed vulnerabilities in urllib3. The update for CVE-2025-66471 introduced a regression in the zstd decompression component inside urllib3. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Illia Volochii discovered that urllib3 did not limit...

[SECURITY] Fedora 43 Update: python-urllib3-2.6.1-1.fc43

urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries: =E2=80=A2 Thread safety. =E2=80=A2 Connection pooling. =E2=80=A2 Client-side SSL/TLS verification. =E2=80=A2 File uploads with multipart encoding...