GHSA-389x-839f-4rhx
Denial of Service attack on windows app using Netty
Quick fix
GHSA-389x-839f-4rhx — io.netty:netty-common: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
# pom.xml: bump <version>4.1.118.Final</version> for io.netty:netty-commonDetails
### Summary An unsafe reading of environment file could potentially cause a denial of service in Netty. When loaded on an Windows application, Netty attemps to load a file that does not exist. If an attacker creates such a large file, the Netty application crash.
### Details A similar issue was previously reported in https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-xq3w-v528-46rv This issue was fixed, but the fix was incomplete in that null-bytes were not counted against the input limit.
### PoC The PoC is the same as for https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-xq3w-v528-46rv with the detail that the file should only contain null-bytes; 0x00. When the null-bytes are encountered by the `InputStreamReader`, it will issue replacement characters in its charset decoding, which will fill up the line-buffer in the `BufferedReader.readLine()`, because the replacement character is not a line-break character.
### Impact Impact is the same as https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-xq3w-v528-46rv
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0Fixed in: 4.1.118.Final# pom.xml: bump <version>4.1.118.Final</version> for io.netty:netty-commonReferences
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-389x-839f-4rhx[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-25193[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/d1fbda62d3a47835d3fb35db8bd42ecc205a5386[WEB]
- https://github.com/netty/netty[PACKAGE]
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250221-0006[WEB]