Bug 2563039 (CVE-2026-116531) - CVE-2026-116531 perl-http-body: HTTP::Body: Denial of Service via improper chunked request body parsing
Summary: CVE-2026-116531 perl-http-body: HTTP::Body: Denial of Service via improper ch...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-116531
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-28 17:34 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-28 17:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-28 17:34:06 UTC
HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl lose track of chunk boundaries in chunked request bodies when a read ends inside a chunk.

In chunked mode, used when no content length is given, add() treats a chunk as complete once the buffer is as long as the chunk's declared size, but the buffer still holds the chunk-size line. When a read ends in the last bytes of a chunk, add() takes the chunk short and parses the leftover data as the next chunk-size line.

A remote attacker can make a chunked body never complete, hanging a server that reads until the body is done, and may make it complete early, leaving the remaining bytes to be read as the next request.


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