CVE-2026-57077 PUBLISHED

YAML::Syck versions before 1.47 for Perl allow an out-of-bounds read via an unbounded newline scan in newline_len

Assigner: CPANSec
Reserved: 23.06.2026 Published: 16.07.2026 Updated: 17.07.2026

YAML::Syck versions before 1.47 for Perl allow an out-of-bounds read via an unbounded newline scan in newline_len.

In the bundled libsyck newline_len and is_newline dereference the scan pointer, and the following byte for a "\r\n" pair, with no NUL-terminator or bounds check. During block-scalar lexing at a document boundary the scan runs one byte past the heap lexer buffer. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2025-11683, on a lexer path the earlier fix did not cover.

Any caller that runs Load or LoadFile on an untrusted document with a block scalar at a document boundary reaches the over-read.

Product Status

Vendor TODDR
Product YAML::Syck
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.47 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to YAML-Syck 1.47 or later.

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read CWE