CVE-2026-115823 Affecting starman package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-STARMAN-21709438
  • published26 Oct 2026
  • disclosed25 Oct 2026

Introduced: 25 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-115823  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:12 starman.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream starman package and not the starman package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl send response bodies for HEAD requests, desynchronizing responses on keep-alive connections.

For a HEAD request Starman omits chunked framing but still writes the body returned by the application, on both the array and streaming response paths. Responses with a 1xx, 204 or 304 status also carry the body.

On a keep-alive or pipelined connection the client reads those bytes as the start of the next response. A front-end proxy that reuses upstream connections may then pair responses with the wrong requests.