{ "document": { "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Starlet versions before 0.33 for Perl allow a request declaring a large Content-Length to kill a worker by exhausting memory.\n\nThe 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.\n\nA remote attacker can force a worker restart with each request of a few bytes.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-Starlet-2026-115865 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-starlet-2026-115865.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/kazuho/Starlet/commit/598947ac620fd31b390335c683d79fa244770782.patch", "url": "https://github.com/kazuho/Starlet/commit/598947ac620fd31b390335c683d79fa244770782.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/KAZUHO/Starlet-0.33/changes", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/KAZUHO/Starlet-0.33/changes" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2026-115865 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115865" } ], "title": "Starlet vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-10-30T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-Starlet-2026-115865", "initial_release_date": "2026-10-30T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-10-30T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<0.33", "product": { "name": "Starlet less than 0.33", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Starlet" } } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=0.33", "product": { "name": "Starlet greater than or equal 0.33", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Starlet" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Starlet" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-115865", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-789", "name": "Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Starlet versions before 0.33 for Perl allow a request declaring a large Content-Length to kill a worker by exhausting memory.\n\nThe 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.\n\nA remote attacker can force a worker restart with each request of a few bytes.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } } ] }