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CVE-2026-55851

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Detection and validation

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What it is

Reported

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In versions 4.2.0.Final up to (but not including) 4.2.16.Final, and 4.1.0.Final up to (but not including) 4.1.135, the `HAProxyMessageDecoder` in Netty's `codec-haproxy` module performs protocol version detection by reading the 13th byte as a signed Java `byte` and widening it to `int` without masking; a PROXY protocol v2 binary prefix followed by version byte `0xFF` sign-extends to `-1`, collides with the decoder's need-more-data sentinel, and causes `ByteToMessageDecoder` to accumulate inbound bytes in…

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What is affected

Reported

Netty; codec-haproxy. Product-level identification only; no affected-version conclusion is available from this field.

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Urgency and basis

Reported

Track · 121.8

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Exploitation evidence

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What to do

Reported

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