Mageia 9 perl-Starman Important HTTP Request Smuggling MGASA-2026-0119
mageia
May 7, 2026
MGASA-2026-0119 - Updated perl-Starman packages fix security vulnerability
Summary
Description:
Starman versions before 0.4018 for Perl allow HTTP Request Smuggling
via Improper Header Precedence.
Starman incorrectly prioritizes "Content-Length" over
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked" when both headers are present in an HTTP
request. Per RFC 7230 3.3.3, Transfer-Encoding must take precedence.
An attacker could exploit this to smuggle malicious HTTP requests via a
front-end reverse proxy.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35448
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/29/1
- https://metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Starman-0.4018/changes
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3.3.3
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-40560
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 9/core/perl-Starman-0.401.800-1.mga9
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Publication date: 07 May 2026
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2026-0119.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2026-40560
Topics Covered
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