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    <title>GHSA-hpcc-26xq-25fv — Netty: Memory Exhaustion via HTTP/3 Reserved Frame Types</title>
    <updated>2026-09-29T21:31:54.101712+00:00</updated>
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      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><strong>Affected:</strong> Maven: io.netty:netty-codec-http3</p>
<p>### Summary
Netty's Http3FrameCodec buffers incoming data for HTTP/3 reserved frame types up to the specified payload length without any limits. The payload length is read directly from the wire and trusted without validation. A bad actor can send a reserved frame with a payload length of up to Integer.MAX_VALUE, causing the server to buffer the data in memory. This leads to an OOM and a gradual Denial of Service due to memory exhaustion as multiple streams are opened.</p>
<p>### Details
`io.netty.handler.codec.http3.Http3FrameCodec#decodeFrame` handles reserved frame types as follows:</p>
<p>```java
                // Handling reserved frame types
                // https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-http-32#section-7.2.8
                if (in.readableBytes() &lt; payLoadLength) {
                    return 0;
                }
```</p>
<p>The `payLoadLength` is read directly from the wire and trusted implicitly. Since `payLoadLength` can be up to Integer.MAX_VALUE and there is no maximum payload length enforcement for reserved frames, the decoder will accumulate bytes in memory until the wire-provided length is reached.</p>
<p>This allows a bad actor to exhaust server memory by opening multiple QUIC streams and sending reserved frames with large payload lengths, followed by a small amount of data (e.g., up to the defined limit) on each stream.</p>
<p>### PoC</p>
<p>```java
    @Test
    public void test() throws Exception {
        EventLoopGroup group = new MultiThreadIoEventLoopGroup(1, NioIoHandler.…</p></div>
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