CVE-2026-44891

Name	CVE-2026-44891
Description	Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.stomp.StompSubframeDecoder fails to limit the total number of headers or their cumulative size per frame, and the maxLineLength parameter only restricts individual header lines. An attacker can send a large number of short headers that are accumulated in memory inside DefaultStompHeadersSubframe until the JVM throws an OutOfMemoryError, causing denial of service for servers exposing a STOMP endpoint based on StompSubframeDecoder. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
netty (PTS)	bullseye	1:4.1.48-4+deb11u2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	1:4.1.48-4+deb11u3	vulnerable
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	1:4.1.48-7+deb12u2	vulnerable
	trixie (security), trixie	1:4.1.48-10+deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	1:4.1.48-16	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
netty	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-vhch-2wf3-m8rp
https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/17063
https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/17065
https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/5b68c61f37aa4a3045cba624cbea239655c9003b (netty-4.2.16.Final)
https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/bb2ff68a1fb71cb4b0eb9a9e17b66c52aff680c6 (netty-4.1.136.Final)