PT-2026-25828 · Toddr · Yaml::Syck

Todd Rinaldo

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Published

2026-03-16

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Updated

2026-03-16

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CVE-2026-4177

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YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter.
The heap overflow occurs when class names exceed the initial 512-byte allocation.
The base64 decoder could read past the buffer end on trailing newlines.
strtok mutated n->type id in place, corrupting shared node data.
A memory leak occurred in syck hdlr add anchor when a node already had an anchor. The incoming anchor string 'a' was leaked on early return.

Heap Based Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-4177

Affected Products

Yaml::Syck