GHSA-w573-9ffj-6ff9MediumCVSS 4.0

Netty: Unix-socket fd receive leaks descriptors when peer sends two at once

Published
June 8, 2026
Last Modified
June 8, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

netty_unix_socket_recvFd sets msg_control to char control[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))] (line 940) — 24 bytes on 64-bit Linux. A peer-sent SCM_RIGHTS cmsg carrying two ints has cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(8) = 24, which fits exactly with no MSG_CTRUNC, so the kernel installs both fds in the receiving process. The subsequent check cmsg->cmsg_len == CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int)) (line 972, expected 20) fails, the branch that would read the fd is skipped, and neither installed fd is closed. The for(;;) loop calls recvmsg again (non-blocking → EAGAIN → Java maps to 0 → read loop exits normally), leaving two leaked fds per message. There is no MSG_CTRUNC handling. Reachable via Epoll/KQueue DomainSocketChannel when the application opts into DomainSocketReadMode.FILE_DESCRIPTORS (non-default).

🎯 Affected products4

  • maven/io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll:>= 4.2.0.Final, <= 4.2.14.Final
  • maven/io.netty:netty-transport-native-kqueue:>= 4.2.0.Final, <= 4.2.14.Final
  • maven/io.netty:netty-transport-native-kqueue:<= 4.1.134.Final
  • maven/io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll:<= 4.1.134.Final

🔗 References (4)