Netty resource management error vulnerability

Netty is a non-blocking I/O client-server framework from the Netty community. It is primarily used for developing Java network applications, such as protocol servers and clients. Versions of Netty prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final contained a resource management vulnerability. This...

GHSA-F6HV-JMP6-3VWV Netty: HttpContentDecompressor maxAllocation bypass when Content-Encoding set to br/zstd/snappy leads to decompression bomb DoS

Summary HttpContentDecompressor accepts a maxAllocation parameter to limit decompression buffer size and prevent decompression bomb attacks. This limit is correctly enforced for gzip and deflate encodings via ZlibDecoder, but is silently ignored when the content encoding is br Brotli, zstd, or...