Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 16, 2026· Updated Mar 17, 2026
YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter
CVE-2026-4177
Description
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.
Affected products
2- Range: <=1.36
- TODDR/YAML::Syckv5Range: 0
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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