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GHSA-w573-9ffj-6ff9

Netty: Unix-socket fd receive leaks descriptors when peer sends two at once

Quick fix

GHSA-w573-9ffj-6ff9 — io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

# pom.xml: bump <version>4.2.15.Final</version> for io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll

Details

netty_unix_socket_recvFd sets msg_control to `char control[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))]` (line 940) — 24 bytes on 64-bit Linux. A peer-sent SCM_RIGHTS cmsg carrying two ints has cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(8) = 24, which fits exactly with no MSG_CTRUNC, so the kernel installs both fds in the receiving process. The subsequent check `cmsg->cmsg_len == CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int))` (line 972, expected 20) fails, the branch that would read the fd is skipped, and neither installed fd is closed. The for(;;) loop calls recvmsg again (non-blocking → EAGAIN → Java maps to 0 → read loop exits normally), leaving two leaked fds per message. There is no MSG_CTRUNC handling. Reachable via Epoll/KQueue DomainSocketChannel when the application opts into DomainSocketReadMode.FILE_DESCRIPTORS (non-default).

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Affected packages

Maven/io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll
Introduced in: 4.2.0.FinalFixed in: 4.2.15.Final
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>4.2.15.Final</version> for io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll
Maven/io.netty:netty-transport-native-kqueue
Introduced in: 4.2.0.FinalFixed in: 4.2.15.Final
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>4.2.15.Final</version> for io.netty:netty-transport-native-kqueue
Maven/io.netty:netty-transport-native-kqueue
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4.1.135.Final
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>4.1.135.Final</version> for io.netty:netty-transport-native-kqueue
Maven/io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4.1.135.Final
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>4.1.135.Final</version> for io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll

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