Bug 2563038 (CVE-2026-116285) - CVE-2026-116285 perl-http-body: HTTP::Body: Denial of Service via quadratic regular expression backtracking
Summary: CVE-2026-116285 perl-http-body: HTTP::Body: Denial of Service via quadratic r...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-116285
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-28 17:33 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-28 17:52 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-28 17:33:53 UTC
HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic regex backtracking when parsing chunked request bodies.

In chunked mode, used when no content length is given, add() matches each chunk-size line with `/^([\da-fA-F]+).*\x0D\x0A/`. On a line of hex digits whose first LF has no CR before it, the digits and `.*` backtrack against each other, so a single add() takes time quadratic in the line's length. Nothing limits how long the line can be.

A remote attacker can exhaust CPU in applications that pass chunked request bodies to HTTP::Body.


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