CVE-2026-4177
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.
Published:Mar 16, 2026
Last Modified:Mar 24, 2026
EPS:Mar 16, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00019
CVSS Score:9.1
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Toddr
Product
Yaml::syck
Toddr
Yaml::syck
Vendor
Toddr
Product
Yaml\
Toddr
Yaml\
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
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Privileges Required
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
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Confidentiality
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Integrity
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Availability
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