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CVE-2026-4177 YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity…

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 and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS) Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Versions not published
YAML::Syck 1.36 earliest → 1.36 No fix stated
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Versions not published

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