CVE-2020-11612

Published April 7th, 2020

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CVSS v3

7.5

HIGH

CVSS v2

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

The ZlibDecoders in Netty 4.1.x before 4.1.46 allow for unbounded memory allocation while decoding a ZlibEncoded byte stream. An attacker could send a large ZlibEncoded byte stream to the Netty server, forcing the server to allocate all of its free memory to a single decoder.

netty/netty

Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework

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