Bug 2488394 (CVE-2026-45536) - CVE-2026-45536 netty-transport-native-epoll: netty-transport-native-kqueue: Netty: Denial of Service due to file descriptor leak in SCM_RIGHTS message handling
Summary: CVE-2026-45536 netty-transport-native-epoll: netty-transport-native-kqueue: N...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-45536
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-12 15:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-04 14:00 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:50085 0 None None None 2026-08-04 14:00:51 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-12 15:02:19 UTC
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, netty_unix_socket_recvFd sets msg_control to `char control[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))]` (line 940) — 24 bytes on 64-bit Linux. A peer-sent SCM_RIGHTS cmsg carrying two ints has cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(8) = 24, which fits exactly with no MSG_CTRUNC, so the kernel installs both fds in the receiving process. The subsequent check `cmsg->cmsg_len == CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int))` (line 972, expected 20) fails, the branch that would read the fd is skipped, and neither installed fd is closed. The for(;;) loop calls recvmsg again (non-blocking → EAGAIN → Java maps to 0 → read loop exits normally), leaving two leaked fds per message. There is no MSG_CTRUNC handling. Reachable via Epoll/KQueue DomainSocketChannel when the application opts into DomainSocketReadMode.FILE_DESCRIPTORS (non-default). Versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final patch the issue.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-04 14:00:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1

Via RHSA-2026:50085 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50085


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