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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-116531 EUVD-2026-112275GHSA-288c-cm7p-6mc5

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

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

Description

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.

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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