CVE-2014-0193

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

WebSocket08FrameDecoder in Netty 3.6.x before 3.6.9, 3.7.x before 3.7.1, 3.8.x before 3.8.2, 3.9.x before 3.9.1, and 4.0.x before 4.0.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a TextWebSocketFrame followed by a long stream of ContinuationWebSocketFrames.

Affected products

netty: 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.5 (+26)

References

http://netty.io/news/2014/04/30/release-day.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1019.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1020.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1021.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1351.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/58280
http://secunia.com/advisories/59290
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67182
https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/2441

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