CVE-2026-55851 Netty codec-haproxy: Signed-Byte Sentinel Collision in HAProxyMessageDecoder Leads to Unbounded Memory Exhaustion

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In versions 4.2.0.Final up to but not including 4.2.16.Final, and 4.1.0.Final up to but not including 4.1.135, the HAProxyMessageDecoder in Netty's codec-haproxy module performs protocol version detection by...