CVE-2026-5089: YAML::Syck versions before 1.38 for Perl has an out-of-bounds read
TODDR · YAML::Syck
Fixed in 1.38 · Affected: TODDR YAML::Syck before 1.38 · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 35% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
YAML::Syck versions before 1.38 for Perl has an out-of-bounds read. The base60 (sexagesimal) parsing code in perl_syck.h has a buffer underflow bug in both int#base60 and float#base60 handlers. When processing the leftmost segment of a colon-separated value (e.g., the 1 in 1:30:45), the inner while loop can decrement a pointer past the start of the string buffer: while ( colon >= ptr && *colon != ':' ) { colon--; } if ( *colon == ':' ) *colon = '\0'; // colon may be ptr-1 here When no colon is found (final/leftmost segment), colon becomes ptr-1, and the subsequent *colon dereference reads one byte before the allocated buffer.
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- TODDR · YAML::Syckbefore 1.38
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