CVE-2026-73508

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.dns.AbstractDnsRecord, io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DefaultDnsRecordDecoder.decodeRecord(), and io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DnsCodecUtil.decompressDomainName() failed to release retained or newly allocated ByteBuf objects when IDN.toASCII() or encodeDomainName() rejected a malformed domain name, allowing unauthenticated remote DNS packets to leak direct memory incrementally until denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.

• CWE-772

• https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/5b68c61f37aa4a3045cba624cbea239655c9003bPatch
• https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/bb2ff68a1fb71cb4b0eb9a9e17b66c52aff680c6Patch
• https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.136.FinalRelease Notes
• https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.16.FinalRelease Notes
• https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-mfg7-5gfp-c4w3Vendor Advisory

Published

Aug 13, 2026

Last Modified

Sep 23, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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