Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting netty-javadoc package, versions <4.1.136-150200.4.53.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-NETTYJAVADOC-18533082
  • published5 Aug 2026
  • disclosed4 Aug 2026

Introduced: 4 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-59901  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 netty-javadoc to version 4.1.136-150200.4.53.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream netty-javadoc package and not the netty-javadoc package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, the Bzip2Decoder handler in Netty's compression codec pipeline is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack through a malformed bzip2 stream that permanently captures the event-loop thread in an infinite loop. The vulnerability exists in the run-length encoding (RLE) state machine within [Bzip2BlockDecompressor.read()]. This issue has been fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1