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Improper resource allocation In netty

Description

The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Component
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2021-371362. NVD-2021-371363. OSV-DEBIAN-2021-371364. OSV-2021-371365. GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv6. GCVE-2021-371367. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2021-371368. GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv9. lists.debian.org

References

1. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html2. https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220210-0012/3. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html4. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html5. https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv6. https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/41d3d61a61608f2223bb364955ab2045dd5e40207. https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-53168. https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220210-00129. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb2bf8597e53364ccab212fbcbb2a4e9f0a9e1429b1dc08023c6868e@%3Cdev.tinkerpop.apache.org%3E10. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd262f59b1586a108e320e5c966feeafbb1b8cdc96965debc7cc10b16@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E11. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r75490c61c2cb7b6ae2c81238fd52ae13636c60435abcd732d41531a0@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E12. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5e05eba32476c580412f9fbdfc9b8782d5b40558018ac4ac07192a04@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E13. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5406eaf3b07577d233b9f07cfc8f26e28369e6bab5edfcab41f28abb@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E14. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r06a145c9bd41a7344da242cef07977b24abe3349161ede948e30913d@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E15. https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/codec/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/Bzip2Decoder.java#L8016. https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/codec/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/Bzip2Decoder.java#L30517. https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/codec/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/Bzip2Decoder.java#L294

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