CVE-2022-41881
CVE-2022-41881
In short
Netty's HTTP proxy message decoder can crash with a stack overflow error when processing specially crafted malformed messages, causing denial of service.
Technical detail
An infinite recursion vulnerability in HaProxyMessageDecoder (CWE-674) allows remote attackers to trigger StackOverflowError via malformed messages, resulting in application crash. No authentication required; attack vector is network-based and affects versions before 4.1.86.Final.
Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
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