UBUNTU-CVE-2026-121006: Ubuntu/libhttp-body-perl vulnerability
HTTP::Body versions before 1.2402 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.
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Upgrade
Upgrade
HTTP::Bodyto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 1.25