Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, HttpContentDecompressor accepts a maxAllocation parameter to limit decompression buffer size and prevent decompression bomb attacks. This limit is correctly enforced for gzip and deflate encodings via ZlibDecoder, but is silently ignored when the content encoding is br (Brotli), zstd, or snappy. An attacker can bypass the configured decompression limit by sending a compressed payload with Content-Encoding: br instead of Content-Encoding: gzip, causing unbounded memory allocation and out-of-memory denial of service. The same vulnerability exists in DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener for HTTP/2 connections. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1 advisory.

    This update for netty, netty-tcnative fixes the following issues

    - CVE-2026-41417: missing validations leads to HTTP request smuggling and RTSP request injection via     start-line       injection in `DefaultHttpRequest.setUri()` (bsc#1264350).
    - CVE-2026-42578: HTTP Header Injection via HttpProxyHandler Disabled Validation in Netty (bsc#1265243).
    - CVE-2026-42579: DNS codec does not enforce RFC 1035 domain name constraints during either encoding or     decoding       (bsc#1265272).
    - CVE-2026-42580: chunk size parser silently overflows int and enables request smuggling attacks     (bsc#1265273).
    - CVE-2026-42581: TE+CL header coexistence in HTTP/1.0 requests bypasses smuggling sanitization     (bsc#1265277).
    - CVE-2026-42583: resource exhaustion and possible denial of service via `Lz4FrameDecoder` (bsc#1265279).
    - CVE-2026-42584: improper handling of inbound responses in `HttpClientCodec` can lead to response     desynchronization       (bsc#1265280).
    - CVE-2026-42585: Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework (bsc#1265292).
    - CVE-2026-42586: CRLF Injection in Netty Redis Codec Encoder (bsc#1265245).
    - CVE-2026-42587: HttpContentDecompressor maxAllocation bypass via Content-Encoding: br/zstd/snappy     enables       decompression bomb DoS (bsc#1265246).
    - CVE-2026-44248: Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework (bsc#1265294).
    - CVE-2026-42582: HTTP/3 QPACK literal unbounded allocation (bsc#1265318).

    Changes for netty:

    - Upgrade to upstream version 4.1.133

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and     4.1.133.Final, HttpContentDecompressor accepts a maxAllocation parameter to limit decompression buffer     size and prevent decompression bomb attacks. This limit is correctly enforced for gzip and deflate     encodings via ZlibDecoder, but is silently ignored when the content encoding is br (Brotli), zstd, or     snappy. An attacker can bypass the configured decompression limit by sending a compressed payload with     Content-Encoding: br instead of Content-Encoding: gzip, causing unbounded memory allocation and out-of-     memory denial of service. The same vulnerability exists in DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener for HTTP/2     connections. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final. (CVE-2026-42587)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and
    4.1.133.Final, HttpContentDecompressor accepts a maxAllocation parameter to limit decompression buffer
    size and prevent decompression bomb attacks. This limit is correctly enforced for gzip and deflate
    encodings via ZlibDecoder, but is silently ignored when the content encoding is br (Brotli), zstd, or
    snappy. An attacker can bypass the configured decompression limit by sending a compressed payload with
    Content-Encoding: br instead of Content-Encoding: gzip, causing unbounded memory allocation and out-of-
    memory denial of service. The same vulnerability exists in DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener for HTTP/2
    connections. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final. (CVE-2026-42587)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
321020	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : netty, netty-tcnative (SUSE-SU-2026:2308-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
314775	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-42587	Nessus	Misc.	high
441469	SCA: security update for io.netty:netty-codec-http, io.netty:netty-codec-http2 (GHSA-f6hv-jmp6-3vwv)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
441469	SCA: security update for io.netty:netty-codec-http, io.netty:netty-codec-http2 (GHSA-f6hv-jmp6-3vwv)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high

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