Bug 2503101 (CVE-2026-55833)

Summary: CVE-2026-55833 netty: io.netty/netty-codec-http: Netty: Denial of Service via SPDY header decompression amplification
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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A flaw was found in Netty, a network application framework. A remote attacker could exploit a vulnerability in the SPDY header decoding process. By sending a specially crafted, small compressed header block, the attacker can cause it to expand significantly during decompression, leading to excessive CPU usage and memory allocation. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) due to resource exhaustion.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-21 00:01:48 UTC
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, Netty SPDY header decoding continues inflating zlib-compressed header blocks after the raw header parser has exceeded `maxHeaderSize` and marked the frame truncated in `SpdyFrameCodec`, allowing a remote peer to send a small compressed `HEADERS` block that expands into much larger raw header data and causes compression-amplified CPU and allocation churn. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-13 14:51:18 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.18.3 for Spring Boot 3.5.16

Via RHSA-2026:54622 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54622

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2026-09-10 16:37:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.14.1

Via RHSA-2026:66488 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66488

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2026-09-10 23:25:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.13.6

Via RHSA-2026:66545 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66545

Comment 4 Jon Orris 2026-09-16 17:17:04 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2026:68333 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:68333

Comment 5 Jon Orris 2026-09-21 12:19:57 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Data Grid 8.6.3

Via RHSA-2026:69296 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69296

Comment 6 Jon Orris 2026-09-22 12:57:02 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2026:70228 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70228

Comment 7 Jon Orris 2026-09-22 12:59:28 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 10

Via RHSA-2026:70230 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70230

Comment 8 Jon Orris 2026-09-22 13:01:37 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2026:70229 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70229

Comment 9 Jon Orris 2026-09-22 15:36:38 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1

Via RHSA-2026:70277 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70277

Comment 10 Jon Orris 2026-10-06 07:26:33 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3.3.3

Via RHSA-2026:76637 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:76637