UBUNTU-CVE-2026-121006
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Summary:
Details: HTTP::Body versions before 1.24_02 for Perl parse the trailer in quadratic time. Everything after the last chunk in the same call to add() is parsed with HTTP::Headers, which takes time quadratic in the number of fields of one name. For example, it takes several seconds to parse 16 KiB of "a:" lines. A remote attackercan exhause the CPU with a single request. HTTP::Body version 1.25 limits the size and number of lines in the trailer.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-121006, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-121006, https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/44934345/, https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/983dd4ca3b863ab513240b02c91c3114fb299389.patch, https://metacpan.org/release/GETTY/HTTP-Body-1.24_02/changes
Affected packages
Package
Name: libhttp-body-perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libhttp-body-perl?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
