CVE-2026-59901: Netty: [Bzip2Decoder] Infinite Loop in RLE State Machine Leads to Event-Loop Thread Hang
The Bzip2Decoder handler in Netty’s compression codec pipeline is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack through a malformed bzip2 stream that permanently captures the event-loop thread in an infinite loop. The vulnerability exists in the run-length encoding (RLE) state machine within [Bzip2BlockDecompressor.read()]
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