CVE-2026-116127

NameCVE-2026-116127
DescriptionStarlet versions before 0.33 for Perl send a body in responses to HEAD requests, corrupting the next response on a persistent or pipelined connection. The request method is not passed to the response writer, so whatever body the application returns for a HEAD request is sent. With Plack::Middleware::Head the body is empty, but an HTTP/1.1 response without a Content-Length header still gets the chunked encoding terminator. Responses with status 204 or 304 are also sent with their body. Pipelined GET and HEAD requests keep the connection open even when keep-alive is disabled, which is the default. A client or proxy reading the connection takes the extra bytes as the start of the next response, which may desynchronize a proxy that shares the connection across clients.
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Debian Bugs1152634

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
starlet (PTS)bookworm0.31-2vulnerable
trixie0.31-2+deb13u1vulnerable
forky0.32-1vulnerable
sid0.33-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
starletsource(unstable)0.33-11152634

Notes

https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/44760435/
Fixed by: https://github.com/kazuho/Starlet/commit/859e0c9572cdbed4bb45706d3957b3c025dc0ede (0.33)

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