Red Hat JBossEAP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2025-25193)

Netty, an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework, has a vulnerability in versions up to and including 4.1.118.Final. An unsafe reading of environment file could potentially cause a denial of service in Netty. When loaded on an Windows application, Netty attempts to load a file that does not exist. If an attacker creates such a large file, the Netty application crash. A similar issue was previously reported as CVE-2024-47535. This issue was fixed, but the fix was incomplete in that null-bytes were not counted against the input limit. Commit d1fbda62d3a47835d3fb35db8bd42ecc205a5386 contains an updated fix.. A flaw was found in Netty. An unsafe reading of the environment file could cause a denial of service. When loaded on a Windows application, Netty attempts to load a file that does not exist. If an attacker creates a large file, the Netty application crash.