GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-w573-9ffj-6ff9 Netty: Unix-socket fd receive leaks descriptors when peer sends two at once
MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Aliases
- CVE-2026-45536
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll, io.netty:netty-transport-native-kqueue
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200, CWE-772
- Reviewed
- 2026-06-08
Affected packages
• Maven io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll: >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final → fixed in 4.2.15.Final
• Maven io.netty:netty-transport-native-kqueue: >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final → fixed in 4.2.15.Final
• Maven io.netty:netty-transport-native-kqueue: < 4.1.135.Final → fixed in 4.1.135.Final
• Maven io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll: < 4.1.135.Final → fixed in 4.1.135.Final
Description
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).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-45536 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-w573-9ffj-6ff9 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45536 advisory
- https://github.com/netty/netty package
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.135.Final web
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.15.Final web