Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting kafka-bridge-fips package, versions <1.0.0-r6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-KAFKABRIDGEFIPS-18800551
  • published15 Aug 2026
  • disclosed13 Aug 2026

Introduced: 13 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-73508  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard kafka-bridge-fips to version 1.0.0-r6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kafka-bridge-fips package and not the kafka-bridge-fips package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.dns.AbstractDnsRecord, io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DefaultDnsRecordDecoder.decodeRecord(), and io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DnsCodecUtil.decompressDomainName() failed to release retained or newly allocated ByteBuf objects when IDN.toASCII() or encodeDomainName() rejected a malformed domain name, allowing unauthenticated remote DNS packets to leak direct memory incrementally until denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.