Bug 2560482 (CVE-2026-115824) - CVE-2026-115824 perl-starman: perl-starman: Denial of Service via unbounded buffering of chunked request bodies
Summary: CVE-2026-115824 perl-starman: perl-starman: Denial of Service via unbounded b...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-115824
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2562404 2562406 2562409
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Reported: 2026-10-25 17:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-27 20:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-25 17:01:41 UTC
Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded buffering of chunked request bodies.

The chunked body decoder keeps each chunk in memory until the whole chunk and its CRLF have arrived, and sets no limit on the length of a chunk-size line. A client that declares a huge chunk size and streams data, or sends a chunk-size line that never ends, grows the buffer for as long as it keeps sending.

A remote attacker can exhaust worker memory with a single connection.


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