High severity7.7NVD Advisory· Published Jul 16, 2026· Updated Jul 17, 2026
CVE-2026-57077
CVE-2026-57077
Description
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.
Affected products
4- Range: <1.47
- Range: <1.47
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/perl-YAML-Syck&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/perl-YAML-Syck&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 1.470.0-bp160.1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.470.0-bp160.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.470.0-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3News mentions
1- Perl Modules Libyaml-syck-perl and Libxml-bare-perl Hit by Six Memory Corruption and DoS FlawsVypr Intelligence · Jul 17, 2026