CVE-2026-115865 Affecting starlet package, versions *
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- published31 Oct 2026
- disclosed30 Oct 2026
Introduced: 30 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-115865 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:12 starlet.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream starlet package and not the starlet package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.
Starlet versions before 0.33 for Perl allow a request declaring a large Content-Length to kill a worker by exhausting memory.
The request body is read in a loop that asks sysread for all of the remaining declared length at once. Perl grows the read buffer to that size before any data arrives, so a length larger than available memory makes the worker exit with an uncatchable out of memory error before the application is called.
A remote attacker can force a worker restart with each request of a few bytes.