Bug 2541863 (CVE-2026-100655)

Summary: CVE-2026-100655 io.netty/netty-codec-http: Netty: Denial of Service via unbounded SPDY concurrent streams
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A flaw was found in Netty. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by exhausting server memory. Because the SPDY session handler does not restrict the number of concurrent streams initiated by a remote peer, an attacker can transmit an excessive volume of stream creation requests over a connection, triggering memory exhaustion and crashing the application.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-26 13:37:23 UTC
Netty (io.netty:netty-codec-http) versions up to and including 4.1.137.Final and from 4.2.0.Final through 4.2.17.Final accept an unlimited number of concurrent remote-initiated SPDY streams: SpdySessionHandler defaults localConcurrentStreams to Integer.MAX_VALUE and exposes no API to change it. A remote peer that opens a SPDY connection and sends millions of SYN_STREAM frames with FLAG_FIN=0 causes the server to allocate unbounded heap and direct memory, eventually triggering a JVM OutOfMemoryError and crashing the service. Fixed in 4.1.138.Final and 4.2.18.Final.