CVE-2026-116133 Affecting libhttp-body-perl package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libhttp-body-perl package and not the libhttp-body-perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic rescanning of a multipart body with a missing or malformed boundary.

Before the first part, and between parts, the multipart parser searches the whole buffered body for the next boundary. On a miss it keeps everything and searches again from the start when the next chunk arrives. A body with no boundary, or with a delimiter followed by neither CRLF nor "--", is therefore rescanned on every chunk, taking time quadratic in its size.

A remote attacker can exhaust worker CPU with a few such requests.

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-116133
• https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/bf77eb959bbe1641b77f69eefe98d58ce4c4ec79.patch
• https://metacpan.org/release/GETTY/HTTP-Body-1.24/changes