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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-116134 EUVD-2026-112272GHSA-hm6g-hrhc-g7hv

HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via an unbounded multipart part header block

Published Oct 28, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by CPANSec

Description

HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via an unbounded multipart part header block.

The multipart parser takes everything up to the first blank line after a boundary as the part's header block, with no limit on its size or number of lines. Every line is stored in the part's header hash, so a block of short lines costs about 60 bytes of memory per input byte.

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— HTTP-Body < 1.23_01 1.23_01

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libhttp-body-perl 1.24.01-1 —
Debian 13 libhttp-body-perl No fix yet —
Debian 12 libhttp-body-perl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 libhttp-body-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libhttp-body-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libhttp-body-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libhttp-body-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libhttp-body-perl No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libhttp-body-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libhttp-body-perl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed perl-HTTP-Body 1.240.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12346-1

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