Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting netty package, versions <4.1.48-6


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2404-NETTY-6701688
  • published24 Feb 2025
  • disclosed12 Dec 2022

Introduced: 12 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-41881  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:24.04 netty to version 4.1.48-6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream netty package and not the netty package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:24.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Netty project is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework. In versions prior to 4.1.86.Final, a StackOverflowError can be raised when parsing a malformed crafted message due to an infinite recursion. This issue is patched in version 4.1.86.Final. There is no workaround, except using a custom HaProxyMessageDecoder.

CVSS Scores

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