CVE-2026-59901

ADVISORY - github

Summary

The Bzip2Decoder handler in Netty's compression codec pipeline is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack through a malformed bzip2 stream that permanently captures the event-loop thread in an infinite loop. The vulnerability exists in the run-length encoding (RLE) state machine within [Bzip2BlockDecompressor.read()]

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - github

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')


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EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

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COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

8.7high