Threats tagged 'ghsa-mfg7-5gfp-c4w3'

A memory leak vulnerability exists in Netty's DNS codec due to improper handling of malformed domain names. When invalid domain names cause exceptions during DNS record decoding, allocated buffers are not released, leading to incremental memory leaks. Sustained exploitation can cause resource exhaustion and denial of service in applications using Netty's DnsRecordDecoder.