CVE-2026-115824 PUBLISHED

Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded buffering of chunked request bodies

Assigner: CPANSec
Reserved: 23.10.2026 Published: 25.10.2026 Updated: 25.10.2026

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.

Product Status

Package Collection https://cpan.org/modules
Package Name Starman
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.4019 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to Starman 0.4019 or later.

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE