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CVE-2026-100657
Netty before 4.1.138.Final ByteBuf Leak in StompSubframeDecoder
Description

Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected as a duplicate.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 26, 2026, 2:16 p.m.

Last Modified :

Sept. 28, 2026, 10:17 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

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Affected Products

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ID Vendor Product Action
1 Netty netty
CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 HIGH 83251b91-4cc7-4094-a5c7-464a1b83ea10
CVSS 3.1 HIGH MITRE-CVE
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
CVSS 4.0 HIGH 83251b91-4cc7-4094-a5c7-464a1b83ea10
CVSS 4.0 HIGH [email protected]

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2026-100657 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Rejected by [email protected]

    Sep. 28, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 28, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description Netty's STOMP codec (io.netty:netty-codec-stomp) contains a ByteBuf leak in StompSubframeDecoder. Once a frame's declared content-length has been fully read, the decoder allocates a chunk buffer from the channel allocator and parks it in an instance field while waiting for the single NUL byte that terminates the frame. If that byte never arrives, the buffer is never released: the replay Signal thrown by skipNullCharacter extends Error rather than Exception, so the decoder's catch(Exception) release path does not run, and StompSubframeDecoder overrides neither handlerRemoved0 nor channelInactive, so the buffer also survives channel teardown. A remote peer can leak one allocator buffer per connection by sending a complete, well-formed frame body and withholding its terminating NUL byte; with the default pooled allocator the memory is never returned to the pool or reclaimed by garbage collection, so the leak accumulates for the lifetime of the process and can lead to memory exhaustion. This affects versions up to and including 4.1.137.Final and versions 4.2.0.Final through 4.2.17.Final; it is fixed in 4.1.138.Final and 4.2.18.Final. Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected as a duplicate.
    Removed CVSS V4.0 VulnCheck: AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Removed CVSS V3.1 VulnCheck: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Removed CWE VulnCheck: CWE-772
    Added Affected Affected value removed. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/100xxx/CVE-2026-100657.json">CVE-2026-100657</a>
    Removed Reference VulnCheck: https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-ghg5-c4jg-8q5j
    Removed Reference VulnCheck: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netty-before-4.1.138-final-bytebuf-leak-in-stompsubframedecoder
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 27, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Affected Affected value modified. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/100xxx/CVE-2026-100657.json">CVE-2026-100657</a>
  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Sep. 26, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Netty's STOMP codec (io.netty:netty-codec-stomp) contains a ByteBuf leak in StompSubframeDecoder. Once a frame's declared content-length has been fully read, the decoder allocates a chunk buffer from the channel allocator and parks it in an instance field while waiting for the single NUL byte that terminates the frame. If that byte never arrives, the buffer is never released: the replay Signal thrown by skipNullCharacter extends Error rather than Exception, so the decoder's catch(Exception) release path does not run, and StompSubframeDecoder overrides neither handlerRemoved0 nor channelInactive, so the buffer also survives channel teardown. A remote peer can leak one allocator buffer per connection by sending a complete, well-formed frame body and withholding its terminating NUL byte; with the default pooled allocator the memory is never returned to the pool or reclaimed by garbage collection, so the leak accumulates for the lifetime of the process and can lead to memory exhaustion. This affects versions up to and including 4.1.137.Final and versions 4.2.0.Final through 4.2.17.Final; it is fixed in 4.1.138.Final and 4.2.18.Final.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-772
    Added Affected New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/100xxx/CVE-2026-100657.json">CVE-2026-100657</a>
    Added Reference https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-ghg5-c4jg-8q5j
    Added Reference https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netty-before-4.1.138-final-bytebuf-leak-in-stompsubframedecoder
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