CVE-2025-11683 (GCVE-0-2025-11683)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-16 00:14
Modified
2025-10-16 13:42
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Summary
YAML::Syck versions before 1.36 for Perl has missing null-terminators which causes out-of-bounds read and potential information disclosure Missing null terminators in token.c leads to but-of-bounds read which allows adjacent variable to be read The issue is seen with complex YAML files with a hash of all keys and empty values.  There is no indication that the issue leads to accessing memory outside that allocated to the module.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
TODDR YAML::Syck Version: 0   < 1.36
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