CVE-2026-75596: Netty: Fragmented ClientHello records trigger quadratic pre-handshake reassembly in default SNI parsing
Netty’s default SNI entrypoint reparses and recopies previously received ClientHello fragments on every additional TLS handshake record. A remote peer can send a small first record that advertises a large ClientHello length and then drip the body in many tiny records, causing superlinear (quadratic) CPU work before the handshake completes. With 4095 one-byte fragments, the handler recopies 8,386,560 bytes from only 24,579 bytes on the wire — a 341× amplification ratio.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-fccg-mwvh-qqg4
- github.com/netty/netty/commit/1b5abc6443b63726c72cdd285af2feb7ddbb8ff7
- github.com/netty/netty/commit/9e0519239108a69b7e9bbc5e9182ee139a0d7961
- github.com/netty/netty/pull/17213
- github.com/netty/netty/pull/17217
- github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.137.Final
- github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.17.Final
- github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-fccg-mwvh-qqg4
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75596
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