GHSA-xcqf-6xfj-3q3xunknown
Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow a stalled request body to hold a worker...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow a stalled request body to hold a worker indefinitely, as read_timeout covers only the headers.
Content-Length and chunked request bodies are read with blocking reads and no deadline. A client that sends complete headers and then stalls or trickles the body keeps the worker waiting until it disconnects.
A remote attacker can take every worker with a few such connections, five with the default worker count, so the server stops answering requests.
Version 0.4019 applies read_timeout to each wait for body data and adds a body_timeout limit, 300 seconds by default, on the total time to read a body.
🔗 References (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115817
- https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/89dffd3bdc9baa1cbe1b48a43615586ba2588558.patch
- https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/a30533c03051502d6b67cd48b3a95a61e129691b.patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Starman-0.4019/changes
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xcqf-6xfj-3q3x