diff --git a/http-server-netty/src/main/java/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/handler/PipeliningServerHandler.java b/http-server-netty/src/main/java/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/handler/PipeliningServerHandler.java
index 14310381958..727b58d45a0 100644
--- a/http-server-netty/src/main/java/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/handler/PipeliningServerHandler.java
+++ b/http-server-netty/src/main/java/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/handler/PipeliningServerHandler.java
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
 
+import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.util.ArrayDeque;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -557,6 +558,12 @@ void read(Object message) {
             }
         }
 
+        @Override
+        void discard() {
+            // note: this has to match RoutingInBoundHandler#IGNORABLE_ERROR_MESSAGE
+            handleUpstreamError(new EOFException("Connection closed before full body was received"));
+        }
+
         @Override
         void handleUpstreamError(Throwable cause) {
             dest.error(cause);
@@ -697,6 +704,12 @@ void readComplete() {
         void handleUpstreamError(Throwable cause) {
             delegate.handleUpstreamError(cause);
         }
+
+        @Override
+        void discard() {
+            dispose();
+            delegate.discard();
+        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -820,6 +833,11 @@ private void write(OutboundHandler handler) {
                 return;
             }
 
+            if (ctx.isRemoved()) {
+                handler.discardOutbound();
+                return;
+            }
+
             if (this.handler instanceof ContinueOutboundHandler cont) {
                 cont.next = handler;
                 writeSome();
diff --git a/http-server-netty/src/test/groovy/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/fuzzing/FlagAppender.java b/http-server-netty/src/test/groovy/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/fuzzing/FlagAppender.java
index 76e78a47f88..df26d656a75 100644
--- a/http-server-netty/src/test/groovy/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/fuzzing/FlagAppender.java
+++ b/http-server-netty/src/test/groovy/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/fuzzing/FlagAppender.java
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ public static void checkTriggered() {
 
     @Override
     protected void append(ILoggingEvent eventObject) {
+        if (eventObject.getLoggerName().equals(BufferLeakDetection.class.getName())) {
+            // ignore 'Canary leak detection failed.' messages
+            return;
+        }
         triggered = true;
     }
 }
diff --git a/http-server-netty/src/test/groovy/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/fuzzing/FuzzyInputSpec.groovy b/http-server-netty/src/test/groovy/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/fuzzing/FuzzyInputSpec.groovy
index b4f9d564655..d286fd2d25c 100644
--- a/http-server-netty/src/test/groovy/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/fuzzing/FuzzyInputSpec.groovy
+++ b/http-server-netty/src/test/groovy/io/micronaut/http/server/netty/fuzzing/FuzzyInputSpec.groovy
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package io.micronaut.http.server.netty.fuzzing
 
 import io.micronaut.context.ApplicationContext
 import io.micronaut.context.annotation.Requires
+import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Body
 import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Controller
 import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Get
 import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Post
@@ -84,8 +85,10 @@ class FuzzyInputSpec extends Specification {
         when:
         def embeddedChannel = embeddedServer.buildEmbeddedChannel(false)
 
-        embeddedChannel.writeInbound(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(input));
-        embeddedChannel.runPendingTasks();
+        def b = embeddedChannel.alloc().buffer(input.length)
+        b.writeBytes(input)
+        embeddedChannel.writeInbound(b)
+        embeddedChannel.runPendingTasks()
 
         embeddedChannel.releaseOutbound()
         // don't release inbound, that doesn't happen normally either
@@ -110,6 +113,7 @@ class FuzzyInputSpec extends Specification {
                 Base64.decoder.decode("VCB4dCBQLzUuMQoKUDIg/CBIUFRQLzEuMgotdHlwZTo3ClRyYX5zZmVyLUVuRVRUbmc6ZGVmbGF0ZQoKL7lFUDIg/CBIUFRQLzEuMQotdHlwZTotdHlwZTo3ClRyYW5zZmVyeXBlOjf///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////8KVHJhbnNmZXItRW5jb2Rpbmc6ZGVmbGF0ZQpjb250ZW50LWxlbmd0aDo4CgoNSU9OUyAvILiqVFAvCgovuUVQMkdHR0d3AC07biE="),
                 Base64.decoder.decode("UyAvIFAvMC4xMQpjb250ZW50LWxlbmd0aDo0ClRyYW5zZmVyLUVuY29kaW5nOmRlZmxhdGUKCi+5RVAyIPwgSC8xLjEK"),
                 Base64.decoder.decode("cA1ACUhUVFAvOC4wCkhvc3Q6OgpPcmlnaW46Cgo="),
+                Base64.decoder.decode("SEVDc3QNQP/9P/8JSFRUUC8wLjEKZXB0OgoKcG9zdA1A/T/9Oi8v/y9lY2hvLXB1Ymxpc2hlcglIVFRQLzAuMQp0OgpDb250ZW50LUxlbmd0aDo1Cgr/"),
         ]
     }
 
@@ -126,5 +130,10 @@ class FuzzyInputSpec extends Specification {
         public Publisher<String> index(Publisher<String> foo) {
             return foo
         }
+
+        @Post("/echo-publisher")
+        public Publisher<byte[]> echo(@Body Publisher<byte[]> foo) {
+            return foo;
+        }
     }
 }