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SCA: security update for io.netty:netty-codec (GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415279

Description

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

 - The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed
 output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are
 affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack (CVE-2021-37136)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415279

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.88

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-37136

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-37136

cwe: CWE-400