UBUNTU-CVE-2026-117500

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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-117500

Summary:

Details: HTTP::Body versions before 1.24_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via regex backtracking on the filename of a multipart upload. For every file part, the multipart parser finds the suffix of the uploaded filename by matching the default $basename_regexp, qr/[^.]+(\.[^\\\/]+)$/, against the whole basename. A basename made of many dots and ending in a backslash makes the regex backtrack in time quadratic in its length. A remote attacker can exhaust CPU with one request, as a basename of about 32 KB takes several seconds to match and every file part is matched separately.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-117500, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-117500, https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/44711935/, https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/3abc958d78bd84bf4abb87bad79b9432eab7e694.patch, https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/9ab46daaede02fb13ea55a7e3ede34c8b918d8ca.patch, https://metacpan.org/release/GETTY/HTTP-Body-1.24_01/changes